Dumb Leaders

Hire character. Train skill. - Peter Schutz

Leadership is an ever-evolving position. - Mike Krzyzewski

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. - George Patton

Behind leadership there is always a person. - Unknown

Perfection is impossible. Excellence is not. - Rob Feenie

Management is nothing more than motivating people. - Lee Iacocca

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs. - Stephen Covey

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf. - Nikita Khrushchev

The most effective way to lead is to lead from within. - Lolly Daskal

Confidence is the thing you had before you knew better. - Unknown

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

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. - Louis Nizer

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Dr. Samuel Johnson

The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. - Kenneth H Blanchard

Lead from the back, and let others believe they are in front. - Nelson Mandela

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. - Sigmund Freud

Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. - Roy T Bennett

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. - English Proverb

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. - Confucius

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse. - Napoleon Bonaparte

One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness. - C S Lewis

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. - Leo Durocher

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. - Max Lucado

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into matrimony. - George Farquhar

She got a mud pack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off. - Red Skelton

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

The best time management strategy: don't find the time, find the why. - Chris Guillebeau

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge. - Unknown

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. - Henry David Thoreau

Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them. - Nicole Guillaume

If I'm traveling, I'll pack socks in my bag - really cute furry ones. - Nicki Minaj

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it. - Omar N. Bradley

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. - Brian Tracy

Leadership is all about influence - the first person you need to influence is you. - John C Maxwell

Integrity is not something you show others. It is how you behave behind their back. - Unknown

If you value your integrity, be prepared to take a beating from those who have non. - Lars L Thygesen

Integrity is telling myself the truth. Honesty is telling the truth to other people. - Spencer Johnson

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung

Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on values rather than personal gain. - Unknown

The best leaders incentivize, inspire and empower their teams to be creative and innovative. - Michael Bloomberg

The less I know about a subject, the more confidence I have; and the more light I throw on it. - Mark Twain

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. - Peter F Drucker

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. - Lao-Tzu

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked. Leadership is defined by results, not attributes. - Peter F Drucker

Leadership is about creating powerful human currents moving enthusiastically and creatively in the right direction. - Unknown

It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without. - Ymber Delecto

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. - Stephen Covey

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

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything. - Erica Jong

I think Mr. Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills. Everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I'm around. - Homer Simpson

Faithfulness is essential to the character of a friend: without this there can be no safety in intimacy with and confidence in him. - Samuel Hopkins

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. - Oscar Wilde

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

Integrity will take a leader farther than any other quality. If you would travel far and do much as a leader, never compromise your integrity. - John C Maxwell

When I know that, if I have no inspiration whatsoever, when I come and I just feel empty, I have nothing, I know that I can still play the scene. - Christopher Walken

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. - Norman Vincent Peale

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. - Oscar Wilde