“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
— Jack Welch
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader; a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”
— Winston Churchill
“Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.”
— John Crosby
“A man who doesn’t trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.”
— Cardinal de Retz
“In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.”
— Eric Schmidt
“Your reputation and integrity are everything. Follow through on what you say you’re going to do. Your credibility can only be built over time, and it is built from the history of your words and actions.”
— Maria Razumich-Zec
“Distrust that man who tells you to distrust; He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.”
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date.”
-— Roger von Oech
“The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.”
-— Lawrence Miller
“After years of telling corporate citizens to ‘trust the system,’ many companies must relearn instead to trust their people – and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.”
-– Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.”
-— Dr. Linus Pauling