Dreams don't come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change.
— Shonda Rhimes
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The more you can be authentic, the happier you're going to be, and life will work itself around that.
— Melinda Gates
Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.
— Margaret Wheatley
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
— John C. Maxwell
People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
— Simon Sinek
It's only after you've stepped outside of your comfort zone that you being to change, grow and transform.
— Roy T. Bennett
If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the oganization gets pulled up with you.
— Indra Nooyi
You are the leader of You, Inc., and your success—however you define it—depends on how well you invest in yourself by thinking and acting like a business.
— Steve White
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
— Amelia Earheart
I learned that things are never as complicated as we imagine them to be. It is only our arrogance which seeks to find complicated answers to simple problems.
— Muhammad Yunus
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
— Albert Einstein
I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talends. A good leaders will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
— Ben Carson
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
— Barack Obama
A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
— Nelson Mandela
Knowing what must be done does away with fear.
— Rosa Parks
A person who wants to lead the orchestra must turn their back on the crowd.
— Max Lucado
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
— Warren Buffett
It's fine to celebrate success but it's more important to heed the lessons of failure
— Bill Gates
There is no invesment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
— Orison Swett Marden
A leader is best when people barely know they exist. When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, the people will say: We did it ourselves.
— Lao Tzu
The things we fear most in organizations--fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances--are the primary sources of creativity.
— Margaret Wheatley
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
— Brian Tracy
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
— Arnold Glasow
Leaders don't inflict pain, they share pain
— Max De Pree
If you seek to lead, invest at least 50 percent of your time leading yourself--your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, and conduct.
— Dee Hock
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.
— Herbert Swope
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to list to the needs of others.
— Douglas MacArthur
To add value to others, one must first value others
— John Maxwell
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
— Seth Godin
Create an environment where every employee can bring their whole self to work and not just make a living but also have a life.
— Indra Nooyi
We all have differences. Not talking about it is not acceptable. Silence is not an approach that works: it's the conversations that really matter.
— Edith Cooper
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