Lonely Meeting

Example is leadership. - Albert Schweitzer

A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. - Margaret Fuller

We hold these semi-animal meetings. - Archie Bunker

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Building a business is a marathon, not a sprint. - Taavet Hinrikus

The purpose of a business is to create a customer. - Peter F Drucker

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. - Aristotle

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

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. - John C Maxwell

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. - Harold Geneen

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. - Dave Barry

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff. - Mark Zuckerberg

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

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning. - Thomas Edison

Managers light a fire under people; leaders light a fire in people. - Kathy Austin

The boss says, 'Go', the leader says 'Let's go!' - Harry Gordon Selfridge

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles. - Stephen Covey

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it. - Dr. Phil McGraw

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. - Oscar Wilde

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

The beginning of leadership is a battle for the hearts and minds of men. - Bernard L Montgomery

Be enthusiastic as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match. - Unknown

Being positive in a negative situation is not naive, it's leadership. - Ralph Marston

The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily. - Robin Sharma

There is no such thing as 'business ethics'... it's all ethics! - John C Maxwell

The value of a leader is directly proportional to that leader's values. - Unknown

Be stubbornly committed to your team, but flexible in your leadership style. - Jo Miller

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. - George Bernard Shaw

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty. - Stephen Covey

Leadership is not something you do to people; it is something you do for people. - Ken Blanchard

Negotiate: To seek a meeting of the minds without the knocking together of heads - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Leadership is at its best making promises to the people... and then keeping them. - Unknown

You can only go as high on the leadership ladder as your character will allow you. - John C Maxwell

When women are mad or depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. - Elayne Boosler

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems. - Brian Tracy

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies. - Chris Johnson

If a man's character is to be abused, there's nobody like a relative to do the business. - Alexander Pope

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. - John C Maxwell

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the rest lies with God. - C S Lewis

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business. - Will Rogers

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold H. Glasow

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. - George Will

Take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety. - Dale Carnegie

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. - Tom Landry

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. - Diogenes of Sinope

Family, religion, friendship... these are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. - Mr. Burns

The best leaders identify what promises they are being held to, manage expectations, and honor those promises. - Bob Anderson

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team. - John C Maxwell

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid. - Lucian of Samosata

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does. - Stuart H Britt

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. - John Maxwell

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone when it comes to your business. - Mark Cuban

My father was a baker and a lot of people do what their families did and I could have done that but I wanted to stay in show business. - Christopher Walken

The best wrestlers, whether it's a Hulk Hogan or a Rey Mysterio, are the ones who have psychology and can understand this business. - Hulk Hogan

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. - Ronald Reagan

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

Leadership development is not an 'event.' It's a capacity-building endeavor. It's a process of human growth and development. - Linda F Thornton

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential. - Rusty Berkus

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