Quotes by Business Executives - Page 3

Some are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you, or would you rather not bother?
Maurice Flanagan
The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.
Dee Hock
One of the fundamental aspects of leadership, I realized more and more, is the ability to instill confidence in others when you yourself are feeling insecure
Howard Schultz
To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
Howard Schultz
People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.
Howard Schultz
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Jack Welch
Small changes can make huge destination differences.
Sean Covey
Creative thinking begins by embracing your naiveté and rejecting the obvious in favor of the unusual, the extraordinary, the evocative and or the new.
Maureen Chiquet
Could we imagine that beauty itself doesn’t just exist in society’s version of aesthetic perfection? Beauty also emerges from places and things that tell us stories.
Maureen Chiquet
In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil
Robert S. McNamara
I’ve always felt that a manager has achieved a great deal when he’s able to motivate one other person. When it comes to making the place run, motivation is everything. You might be able to do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
Lee Iacocca
Do it because it's right, not because it's right for your resume.
Howard Behar
The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.
Sean Covey
It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.
Sean Covey
The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.
Sean Covey
It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.
Sean Covey
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
Harold Geneen
Your career success in the workplace of today–independent of technical expertise–depends on the quality of your people skills. (9)
Max Messmer Jr.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
Lee Iacocca
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks and courage.
Charles Luckman
You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.
Gordon MacKenzie
Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will
Jack Welch
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
Jack Welch
Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.
Michael D. Eisner
I like how Mother Teresa put it: "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile." If you approach life this way, always looking for ways to build instead of to tear down, you'll be amazed at how much happiness you can give to others and find for yourself
Sean Covey
I used to float along in all of this, like a leaf on a coursing stream, but i am heavier now, less easily moved, more resolute and steadfast. I am no longer in pursuit of happiness. As I stand here at my front door, key in hand, I think it is just possible that happiness, at least for now, today, this hour, may be in pursuit of me.
Anne Giardini
A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.
Eric Schmidt