Leadership Quotes - H's

A page of fantastic leadership quotes from, amongst others: Victor Hugo, Vaclav Havel, Soichiro Honda, Thomas Hobbes, Aldous Huxley, Charles Handy, Sir Edmund Hillary and Sir John Harvey-Jones:

"Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself—your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers."— Dee Hock

"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest."— Hesiod

"Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others may receive your orders without being humiliated."— Dag Hammarskjöld

"How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group."— Sir John Harvey-Jones

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what has happened to him" - Aldous Huxley

"Darwin is probably a better guide to business competition than economists are" - Bruce Henderson

"Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers" - Charles Handy

"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses" - Dag Hammarskjöld

"An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right" - Elbert Hubbard

"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny" - Elbert Hubbard

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man" - Elbert Hubbard

"Power flows to the man who knows how. Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them" - Elbert Hubbard

"Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience" - Elbert Hubbard

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one" - Elbert Hubbard

"The leader has to be practical and a realist; yet he must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist." - Eric Hoffer

"You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things - to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals" - Edmund Hillary

"Management within a society is very much constrained by its cultural context" - Geert Hofstede

"You manage things; you lead people" - Grace Murray Hopper

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant." - Horace

"Every age has its problem, by solving which, humanity is helped forward" - Heinrich Heine

"The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice" - Heraclitus

"It is by work that man carves his way to that measure of power which will fit him for his destiny" - Josiah G. Holland

"Never believe there is something you cannot do until proven otherwise." - Joshua Hill

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and picking people up" - John Andrew Holmes

"Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you?" - Josh Hinds

"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions" - Lillian Hellman

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve" - Napoleon Hill

"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these" - Paul Harvey

"An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions." - Robert A Humphrey

"Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too." - Robert Half

"People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to" - Robert Half

"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognise ability" - Robert Half

"Success is 99% failure" - Soichiro Honda

"The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good" - Thomas Hobbes

"The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet" - Theodore Hesburgh

"There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others" - Thomas Hobbes

"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense" - Vaclav Havel

"People do not lack strength; they lack will" - Victor Hugo

"The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said" - Vaclav Havel

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