7 Quotes for Leaders to Contemplate
Inspiration comes from many sources—a favorite of mine is reading quotes from other leaders. Here are seven quotes for leaders to contemplate:
Change
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
Stephen Hawking, Physicist and Cosmologist
Gender Equality
“Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not going to achieve as much as men.”
Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook
Improvement
“The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don’t improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.”
Indra Nooyi, Chairperson and CEO, PepsiCo
Integrity
“At the end of the day, because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.”
Kenneth Chenault, CEO, American Express
Leadership
“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
Colin Powell, Former United States Secretary of State and Retired General, US Army
Success
“Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.”
Larry Page, CEO, Google Inc.
Self-Reliance
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.”
Dr. Seuss, Author
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