Thursday, December 6, 2012

The Tools of Great Leaders: People


Here are some of my favorite quotes about Leaders and the people that follow them.


You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world…but it requires people to make the dream a reality. - Walt Disney

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton

It is better to have one person working with you, than three working for you. - Unknown

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there. Franklin D. Roosevelt 

A leader is someone who has at least one voluntary follower. - Author unknown


Fail to honor people; they fail to honor you - Lao Tzu

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together. - Warren Bennis and Bert Nanus

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. - Thoreau

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all - Dwight D. Eisenhower

If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.  Napoleon Hill

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. -. - M. Grundler

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his true friend. Next, probe to discover what he wants to accomplish. - Abraham Lincoln

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