Quotes by Authors - Page 306

Leaders are optimistic. When you walk with leaders, the spirit of hope will ramble around you and you will feel like “yes, I can break barriers with few blows.
Israelmore Ayivor
Innovation is the art of creating a better, a more convenient and more comfortable way for the world to pass. Leaders leave footprints everywhere they go. They are impact makers and innovators.
Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders create and maintain good interpersonal relationships with people they meet and work with. People who lead better relate better.
Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders are raised through training and experience. Nobody was born naturally with hand-gloves of leadership. We come to life to search for it, discover it and optimize it.
Israelmore Ayivor
Don’t let the horrible nature of the waters prevent you from crossing the rivers of life. The more horrible the challenges we face, the sweeter the joy of conquering them.
Israelmore Ayivor
A person with low standards will forever be walking. A person with high standard will soon stop walking and start running. Later, they’ll soon stop running and start galloping. The next time you see him, he’s either flying or soaring.
Israelmore Ayivor
The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.
John Ferling
Vision unknown is self-abuse. Vision known is self-abuse discovery. But vision applied is self-liberation. Application is the key
Israelmore Ayivor
Achievements take leaders' name everywhere. Character keeps those names wherever they reach. A leader with no trust soon fades no matter how far he goes.
Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders with high esteem are high performers.
Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders get to tall heights by taking short steps. Being faithful, diligent and consistent with little steps is the secret to mounting greater heights.
Israelmore Ayivor
Clarity repositions you to quit nice activities that take you nowhere in order to pursue risky tasks that take you somewhere.
Israelmore Ayivor
Inferior and Superior life lives in the interior of a person.
Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders don't pray to God to fill their potholes. They ask God for shovels so they can do it by His grace. Pray practically.
Israelmore Ayivor
If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.
John Howard Griffin
The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.
Barbara W. Tuchman
What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin
David Pietrusza
There are really two essential things in campaigning. First, you must be in good humor. If you're going to be a raffle, you are to stay home. Second, you are to make sense in your speeches. These aren't the two things you must do. Unless you're saying, if you can be in good humor when you're exhausted. – Henry Cabot Lodge
David Pietrusza
Nixon wanted view and advice brought to him through intermediaries. He wanted information filtered as it came to him – and he wanted his filters to filter his will back to those whom he must direct.
David Pietrusza
A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders.
J.R. Rim
Accept it as it is and be true to yourself, the real answer is in you. It is about saying no to whom and what no is due and saying yes to whom and what yes is due! A simple solution to most of the problems of mankind today is just Yes and No!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same.
Richie Norton
Great leaders live and leave noble and indelible footprints. Any leader can start something. Any leader can do anything but, the real hallmark and a great measure of a great leader is not necessarily what happens now but, what happens later. The noble works of a true and a great leader stand the test of time and never vanish with time.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
HOW TO CHOOSE A GREAT LEADERChoose a leader who will invest in Building bridges, not walls.Books, not weapons.Morality, not corruption.Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance.Stability, not fear and terror.Peace, not chaos.Love, not hate.Convergence, not segregation.Tolerance, not discrimination.Fairness, not hypocrisy.Substance, not superficiality.Character, not immaturity.Transparency, not secrecy.Justice, not lawlessness.Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction.Truth, not lies.
Suzy Kassem
The quickest way a person can defame your character is by taking something you said out of context. But Fear Not. Everyone that was ever Anyone always had their words taken out of context. If you can't handle having your words twisted up, then leadership is not for you. Leadership is reserved for the ‪#‎BRAVE‬.
Tiffany Winfree
Progress has a steep price. Success has an even steeper price. Your team won't be willing to pay it if you aren't willing to pay it.
T Jay Taylor
I don't want to be rich and famous but I want to die knowing I stood infront of a broken man and gave him one reason to smile again.
Nikki Rowe
Leadership isn't about winning. It's about bringing people with you to the finish line.
JOHN C MAXWELL
Authentic leadership is leadership that endures, because it exists as a function of the individual rather than a crowd of borrowed opinions.
Azim Jamal & Brian Tracy
God’s discipline has nothing to do with rejection but more to do with refinement.
Gary Rohrmayer
Leaders live by reality and not by assumptions!
Gary Rohrmayer
In the world of business, being slow is a losing move.
Shawn Casemore
Business should never be merely transactional -it should be transformational
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Rhetorical question: Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo?I didn't.
Richie Norton
The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking; the science of questioning is to frame system thinking, with the progressive pursuit of better solutions.
Pearl Zhu
You do not need to be a millionaire to feel successful or be successful. Financial wealth is only one of many possible indicators of success. However, to achieve your dreams and life goals you’re going to need money. And making it requires financial planning and goalsetting. I do not know of any successful person who has been able to simply ignore their finances.
Nigel Cumberland
A true leader is the one who leaves memorable footprints of nobility. A leader who is decisive enough and have all the guts to take bold and frank decisions regardless of the oppositions and the temporal adverse effect of such decision on the masses, knowing that in the end, the fruits of such decision will be sweeter enough to put joy on the faces of the masses and they shall remember such noble footprints and ponder in humility.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If you must walk in someone's shadow make sure it's your own
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.
Simon Sinek
Pride does not only come with great responsibility. It is buy one get one free. Great responsibility will require great resourcefulness.
Janna Cachola
Tell them a lie big enough, they'll worship you as a sage. Tell them a truth big enough and they'll mock you.
Abhijit Naskar
The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
A journey to make real impact that changes lives, give meaning to life and living, and turns vision of the masses into realities demands a true focus, an utmost zeal and robustness and an unfailing tenacity to do whatever necessary within the powers and reach of a true leader, and with all needed dexterity, wit and wisdom, to make real impact have a meaning and give real liberation to the masses!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A level 4 leader's greatest asset is his ability to engage, empower, and equip his people; this is what creates the momentum for a significant change in the organization. He invests 80% in his people and 20% in the process.
Farshad Asl
You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world.
Abhijit Naskar
The world needs heroes. Be a hero and build your part of the world.
Abhijit Naskar
You are responsible for everything you TWEET and RETWEET.
Germany Kent
The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do with your attitude and how you treat people.
Germany Kent
It is better to apologise later than to ask for permission now. It is called self leadership
Janna Cachola
A fool can't help but be a fool, but when others follow, he makes a fool of us all.
DaShanne Stokes
Marketing without sales is dead.
Richie Norton
When you feel that others are lacking and failing ....first assess the skill, style, quality, results, mindset, support, professionalism and spirit with which you yourself play the game.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
So imagine that fans of our products or services no longer simply consume and use them. Now we are creating a new opportunity for them to both participate directly in the development of the products but also benefit from a share of the profits too.
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
Engage the whole community with a common purpose to build an innovative and sustainable enterprise.
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
There is too much negativity in the world. Do your best to make sure you aren't contributing to it.
Germany Kent
Self is All. (First Principle of Humanism)
Abhijit Naskar
Arise O lion-heart! Awake, O great soldier! Misery has come upon the world. It is wailing for help. It is wailing for redemption. Won’t you do anything, my friend!
Abhijit Naskar
Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark.
Israelmore Ayivor
The strategist chooses the shortest path while the leader chooses the path through which he learns something new.
Bogdan Vaida