LEADERSHIP QUOTES

"When you're finished changing, you're finished."

- Benjamin Franklin
"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
- Abraham Lincoln
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."
- Stephen Hawking
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
- Carl Jung
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
- Winston Churchill
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created
them."
- Albert Einstein
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or
worse, to avoid trouble."
- Mohandas Gandhi
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."
- Benjamin Franklin
"A leader is a dealer in hope."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
"What we think, we become."
- Buddha
"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
- Winston Churchill
"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
- Albert Einstein
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Confession of errors is like a broom, which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface
brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession."
- Mohandas Gandhi
"A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
- Albert Einstein
"Trust, but verify."
- Ronald Reagan
"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
- William Shakespeare
"When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred."
- Thomas Jefferson
"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
- Carl Jung
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he
wants to do it."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
- Albert Einstein
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your
life."
- Winston Churchill
"A man is but the product of his thoughts - what he thinks, he becomes."
- Mohandas Gandhi
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other
people."
- Carl Jung
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."
- Edmund Hillary

"I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks."

- Winston Churchill
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
- Albert Einstein
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Mohandas Gandhi
"A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to
modify his shape."
- Mark Twain
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in
his language, that goes to his heart."
- Nelson Mandela
"People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary
things."
- Edmund Hillary
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
- Carl Jung
"What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer."
- Peter Drucker
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
- Albert Einstein
"Be the change that you want to see in the world."
- Mohandas Gandhi
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off
as if nothing had happened."
- Winston Churchill
"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants
done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by
results not attributes."
- Peter Drucker
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate
and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand."
- Colin Powell
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
- Albert Einstein
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which
guarantees all others."
- Winston Churchill
"The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes
tainted."
- Mohandas Gandhi
"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you
yourself have obliged."
- Benjamin Franklin
"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and
are too cowardly to let you know."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see."
- Winston Churchill
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
- Albert Einstein
"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
- Carl Jung
"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with
people."
- Mohandas Gandhi
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
- Abraham Lincoln
"You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
- Peter Drucker

"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of
thinking."
- Albert Einstein
"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."
- Winston Churchill
"Force always attracts men of low morality."
- Albert Einstein
"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
- Peter Drucker
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter
the course of history."
- Mohandas Gandhi
"A man's character may be learned from the adjectives, which he habitually uses in
conversation."
- Mark Twain
"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he
becomes your partner."
- Nelson Mandela
"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day
you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or
concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."
- Colin Powell
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is
any reaction, both are transformed."
- Carl Jung
"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
- Abraham Lincoln
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
- Peter Drucker

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein
"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the
human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."
- Winston Churchill
"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of
love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one
derived from fear of punishment."
- Mohandas Gandhi
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."
- Peter Drucker
"Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
- Abraham Lincoln
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along
with people."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Winston Churchill
"Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical
endeavours. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."
- Albert Einstein
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate
victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will
appreciate your leadership."
- Nelson Mandela
"I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And
there's purpose and worth to each and every life."
- Ronald Reagan

"The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not
easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to
produce valuable and lasting results."
- Carl Jung
"Imitation is the sincerest flattery."
- Mohandas Gandhi
"Time is money."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true
master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."
- Albert Einstein
"The power to question is the basis of all human progress."
- Indira Gandhi
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
- Winston Churchill
"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."
- Mohandas Gandhi
"Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with
ingratitude."
- Benjamin Franklin
"I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it."
- Margaret Thatcher
"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development
accorded the individual."
- Albert Einstein
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most
people are frightened of responsibility."
- Sigmund Freud
"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive."
- Mohandas Gandhi
"Whatever you are, be a good one."
- Abraham Lincoln

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss
drives."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."
- Sigmund Freud
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which
you yourself have altered."
- Nelson Mandela
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
- Albert Einstein
"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the
average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."
- Carl Jung
"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."
- Winston Churchill
"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is
the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves."
- Mohandas Gandhi
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he
wants to do it."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower