Leadership Sayings
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Leadership Sayings:Jack Welch, one of the world’s most successful CEOs and leader made this quote :
Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Leaders know that they can control their future. They know that if they don’t decide what they want in life, somebody else will tell them what they should want.
In fact, most people live like that; they live life off others’ expectations. They want what others want; because it just seems like a good idea.
One example I can give is people from my university; it’s a business school, so most of my peers want to go into the investment banking industry. When asked why ( I like to check), usually they don’t have an answer.
Usually their answers are like a half-hearted, “ I guess it’s challenging.” or something along those lines.
At the heart of it all, they don’t know what they want with their lives, so they allow the business school culture to tell them what they want.
This means you have to back off from people sometimes, and just be in solitude for a while. It is in your solitude that you can decide what you want to do, and go for it.
Find your own dream, and live it.
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Herbert B. Swope:
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.
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Isaac Newton:
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower:
You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
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General George S. Patton:
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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Goethe:
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
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Mahatma Gandhi:
If I have the belief that I can do it, I will surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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Vince Lombardi:
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
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Donald Trump:
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
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John Wooden:
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
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Abraham Lincoln:
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
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Nicco Machiavelli:
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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Pearl S Buck:
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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Anonymous:
There is no I in Team.
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