Leadership is not new. While times change and technologies evolve, a lot of the same leadership lessons apply.
That’s why I’ve been loving the fine folks at @leadershiptips who’ve been providing great leadership quotes every day on Twitter.
Here’s 14 timeless leadership quotes from their archive:
20 yrs from now u will be more disappointed by the things that u didn’t do than by the ones u did do. ~ Mark Twain
There is no such thing as a minor lapse in integrity. ~ Tom Peters
People don’t resist change, they resist being changed. ~ Peter Senge
Feedback is the breakfast of champions. ~ Ken Blanchard
Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~ Woody Allen
The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader. ~ Albert Einstein
When all is said and done, a lot more is said than done. ~ Lou Holtz
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now. ~ Steven Wright
Strategy is choice. Strategy means saying no to certain kinds of things. ~ Michael Porter
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. ~ Harvey Mackay
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. ~ Mary Kay Ash
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. ~ Andrew Carnegie
Question authority, but raise your hand first. ~ Bob Thaves
Management is a position that is granted; leadership is a status that is earned. ~ K. Scott Derrick
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“Nobody’s in charge anymore … that means everyone is.” Harland Cleveland.
“Leaders are created by followers.” Peter Block. “Owners create stewards.”
Some of my favorites include:
“You manage things; you lead people.” -Grace Murray Hopper
“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” -John C. Maxwell
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” -Warren G. Bennis
“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”-Ralph Nader
Hadn’t seen the Nader quote – I like it
Lead, follow, or get out of the way. Thomas Paine
My father used this a lot and mostly told us he would prefer we learned to lead and think for ourselves as opposed to follow.
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Don’t get mad, don’t get even…get ahead.
Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.” — Steve Jobs
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don’t let people know where they stand. — Jack Welch
I’ve never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn’t have the right attitude, didn’t give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn’t prepared and didn’t have the whole program worked out. — Ted Turner
Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. — Bill Gates
“You are now as cold, wet and miserable as humanly possible without being hospitalized but you are up, moving and doing your job. When you face and overcome the worst obstical that can be thrown at you, everything else is easy. That is why we train harder than we expect to fight.” — Platoon Sgt. Bill Toughhill after ordering me to do situps in a water filled ditch in January.
Whether you believe you can or believe you can not, you are right.
Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. – Abraham Maslow
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. Colin Powell