Plugged In

Shopping is my cardio. - Carrie Bradshaw

There are no office hours for leaders. - Cardinal J Gibbons

I must follow my people. Am I not their leader? - Benjamin Disraeli

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business. - Salman Rushdie

Fundamental honesty is the keystone of business. - Harvey S Firestone

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso

The highest of distinctions is service to others. - King George VI

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping. - Oscar Wilde

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. - Woodrow Wilson

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed. - Bruce Springsteen

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it. - Henry Mintzberg

Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money. - Alexandre Dumas

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter F Drucker

I never think of my audiences as customers. I think of them as partners. - James Stewart

I am not yet ready to be czar. I know nothing of the business of ruling. - Nicholas II

Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy. - Charles F Abbott

We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma

Business opportunities are like buses; there's always another one coming. - Richard Branson

Seest thou a person diligent in their business? They shall stand before Kings. - Proverbs 22:29

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. - Sir William Temple

Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team. - John C Maxwell

Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves. - Maltbie D. Matlock

Great leaders find ways to connect with their people and help them fulfill their potential. - Steven J Stowell

Good leaders develop ideas. Great leaders develop people. The best leaders develop new leaders. - Bobby Umar

Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you. - Michelle Obama

To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business. - Harvey Mackay

Leaders come in two flavors: expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both. - Barbara Corcoran

Our mission is to connect every person in the world. You don't do that by having a service people pay for. - Mark Zuckerberg

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. - Max DePree

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell

The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness. - Lewis B Smedes

The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader. - Mary Parker Follett

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. - Bill Vaughan

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way. - Edna Ferber

Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal... But don't approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. - Pattabhi Jois

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. When his work is done and his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did it ourselves.' - Lao Tzu

Fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb. - Miroslav Volf

When customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. - Zig Ziglar