Leadership Quotes - Page 68

Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance.

Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

He who believes not in your quest should not sail with you, so that he won't sink your ship.

Bamigboye Olurotimi

Knowledge is what you know,that gives you an edge overthe ordinary person.

Dele Ayo Bankole

A leader’s purpose is to provide knowledge and generate trust through kindness. This will provide a foundation that allows others to make choices, right or wrong, and grow in a positive manner from the experience.

A team succeeds where an individual fails.

Some team members act as adhesives to unite the team.

The point is, education in its truest form, is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the civilized elements of human consciousness. Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life. The ability of being educated is what distinguishes humans from animals. You can teach a cockatoo to repeat a bunch of vocabularies, but you cannot teach it to construct a space shuttle and go to the moon.

Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.

This is not education my friend. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens, and thereby falsely labeled as Education.

Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.

All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.

Mind is the Alpha – Mind is the Omega. There is nothing else in the pursuit of knowledge. And more importantly, there is nothing else in education. All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.

Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception - it means breaking the barriers of the rugged sociological system that impede in the progress of human civilization - it means trying out new things for the first time in human history and succeeding in a few while failing in some. And that is how a species grows to become more advanced.

Highlighting strengths increases sales.

Good sales copy creates good sales.

In sales, every prospect is a potential customer.

In order to sell, salespersons have to correctly evaluate and cater to customer choices.

Retail selling benefits from aggressive publicity.

Criticizing is easy, performing is difficult.

Needless documentation hampers performance.

Motivation overcomes self-limitations.

Sensible motivation is always effective.

Regular and concentrated training makes an expert.

Training of parts leads to training of the whole.

Helping others is an effective way of training oneself.

Unfulfilled needs makes training unfulfilled.

The highest training trains oneness.

The concern of a team member is also the concern of the team.

Mutually helping team members achieve both individual and team objectives.

Conflicts need to be resolved at the earliest.

For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Faraday, myself and many others, education is a relentless voyage of discovery. To us education is an everlasting quest for knowledge and wisdom.

If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.

The system that aims at educating our boys and girls in the same manner as in the circus where the trainer teaches the lion to sit on a stool, has not understood the true meaning of education itself. Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.

A satisfied customer brings more customers.

A team is more than the sum of the individuals.

Investor confidence rests on leaders who deliver.

Some leaders lead from the front.

Adverse situations used advantageously can offer solutions to problems.

Conflicts may create unfathomable distances.

Make sure a conflict exists before working to resolve it.

If the difficult tasks are completed first, then the remaining tasks seem easy.

Words motivate.

Conflicts are expensive.

Employees are usually motivated to stay or leave due to their managers.

Recognition motivates.

Conflicts have small beginnings.

A positive change in approach improves quality.

The quality of the product is inseparable from the quality of its parts.

Quality is all about taking care of the details.

The clearer the objective, the better the performance.

Quality solves the trade-off between margins and sales.

Work always makes a difference.

Growth-oriented performance demands sustained entrepreneurial efforts.

Any work not executed honestly, fails to fulfill its objective.

Well-intentioned but ill-informed actions usually compromise quality.

Over time, repetition brings perfection, which brings success.

How one treats another one, determines success.

Sometimes a problem itself offers its own solution.

A clear mind achieves success.

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