Leadership Quotes - S's

Great leadership quotes from: William Shakespeare, Vidal Sassoon, Seneca, Socrates, Peter Senge, George Bernard Shaw, Sikorski, Albert Schweitzer, Alan Sugar, Ernest Shackleton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, General "Stormin'" Norman Schwarzkopf and more:

"Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers. We are tired of leaders we fear, tired of leaders we love, and of tired of leaders who let us take liberties with them. What we need for leaders are men of the heart who are so helpful that they, in effect, do away with the need of their jobs. But leaders like that are never out of a job, never out of followers. Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away."— Admiral James B. Stockdale

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve" - Albert Schweitzer

"He who has great power should use it lightly."— Seneca

"A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision" - Alan Sugar

"Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally" - Alan Sugar

"At best, only 2-3% of today’s established players are eagerly, earnestly, rigorously looking for the next wave in their own industry. They will pay a heavy price for this" - Adrian Slywotzky

"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has" - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma" - Alan Sugar

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing" - Albert Schweitzer

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, than you are indeed a man of true wisdom" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"It is not a sacrifice, it's a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn't say it's a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it" - Aung San Suu Kyi

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else." - Alan Sugar

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength" - Arnold Schwarzenegger

"The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time" - Alexander Smith

"There's only room for one bigmouth in my organisation, and that's me." - Alan Sugar

"What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows" - Alexandra Stoddard

"Men fail through a lack of purpose rather than lack of talent" - Billy Sunday

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try" - Beverly Sills

"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want" - Dan Stanford

"Today's business leader cannot justify his existence by profit statements alone. He must also render service to his local, national and world community" - Dorothy Shaver

"No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man" - Ernest Shackleton

"The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them" - Edgar Schein

"All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions" - George Bernard Shaw

"Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do" - Gerry Sikorski

"Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius" - George Bernard Shaw

"Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy" - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations" - George Bernard Shaw

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn" - Gloria Steinem

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress in the world depends on the unreasonable man" - George Bernard Shaw

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up then, for that is just the time that the tide will turn" - Harriet Beecher Stowe

"The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious" - John Scully

"The new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment" - John Sculley

"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible" - Jonathan Swift

"I view models and prototypes as the battleground for thoughts and behaviours" - Michael Schrage

"Real commitment is rare ... 90% of the time what passes for commitment is compliance" - Peter Senge

"Anything worth doing, is worth doing now." - Ralph Stayer

"Change the rules before somebody else does" - Ralph Seferian

"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives" - Robert South

"If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place" - Robert Schumann

"Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation" - Roger Staubach

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life" - Robert Louis Stevenson

"We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend" - Robert Louis Stevenson

"What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you" - Ralph W. Sockman

"You don't just stumble into your future, you create your own future" - Roger Smith

"Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war" - Seneca

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Seneca

"The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be" - Socrates

"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers" - Seneca

"What you cannot enforce, do not command." - Sophocles

"In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design" - Thomas Stewart

"Networks irrevocably subvert managerial authority" - Thomas Stewart

“Where success comes before work is a dictionary" - Vidal Sassoon

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them" - William Shakespeare

"To thine ownself be true" - William Shakespeare

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