“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
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100 Leadership Quotes
A short introduction
Leadership quotes fail when they sound like a crown. The honest ones sound like a job — listening, deciding, taking blame, giving credit, and going last through the door.
Here are a hundred lines from people who led armies, companies, movements, and classrooms. They talk about example more than charisma. That is the thread.
If you manage anyone, even a project of two, a good sentence can name the standard you keep forgetting under pressure. Read for that, not for a personal brand.
When you want the words visible — in a stand-up, a newsletter, a print — generate a poster. Four options. No watermark. Author attached.
Leadership is mostly ordinary days. These quotes are meant to travel into those days, not only onto a keynote slide.
If you manage anyone, even a project of two, pick one standard you keep forgetting under pressure. Put that sentence where you will see it before the meeting. FOURQuoteDesigns will turn it into four posters. Keep the author's name. Then go first in the hard part, and let the quote stay behind you.
100 quotes
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
Steve Jobs
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
Steve Jobs
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
Steve Jobs
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Steve Jobs
“I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”
Steve Jobs
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
Steve Jobs
“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”
Steve Jobs
“I never lose. I either win or I learn.”
Nelson Mandela
“It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.”
Nelson Mandela
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
Nelson Mandela
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
Nelson Mandela
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
Henry Ford
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
Winston Churchill
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
Winston Churchill
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
Winston Churchill
“Be not afraid of greatness.”
William Shakespeare
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
Michael Jordan
“Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.”
Vince Lombardi
“The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.”
Vince Lombardi
“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”
Vince Lombardi
“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”
Vince Lombardi
“Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.”
Vince Lombardi
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
Vince Lombardi
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
Vince Lombardi
“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”
Vince Lombardi
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
Vince Lombardi
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
Vince Lombardi
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”
Tony Robbins
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room.”
Jeff Bezos
“If you double the number of experiments you do per year, you're going to double your inventiveness.”
Jeff Bezos
“We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.”
Jeff Bezos
“If you never want to be criticized, for goodness' sake don't do anything new.”
Jeff Bezos
“What's dangerous is not to evolve.”
Jeff Bezos
“I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”
Jeff Bezos
“Work hard, have fun, make history.”
Jeff Bezos
“If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall.”
Jeff Bezos
“In the end, we are our choices.”
Jeff Bezos
“Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.”
Jeff Bezos
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
Warren Buffett
“Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”
Warren Buffett
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”
Warren Buffett
“The most important investment you can make is in yourself.”
Warren Buffett
“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
Warren Buffett
“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.”
Warren Buffett
“Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people.”
Warren Buffett
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”
Warren Buffett
“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
Warren Buffett
“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.”
Warren Buffett
“It's better to hang out with people better than you.”
Warren Buffett
“The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.”
Warren Buffett
“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”
Warren Buffett
“Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.”
Warren Buffett
“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.”
Warren Buffett
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Bill Gates
“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.”
Bill Gates
“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”
Bill Gates
“Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
Bill Gates
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
Bill Gates
“It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
Bill Gates
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
Bill Gates
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
Bill Gates
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.”
Steve Jobs
“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”
Steve Jobs
“Simple can be harder than complex.”
Steve Jobs
“Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.”
Steve Jobs
“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check.”
Steve Jobs
“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.”
Steve Jobs
“Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.”
Steve Jobs
“We're here to put a dent in the universe.”
Steve Jobs
“Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.”
Steve Jobs
“Hit refresh.”
Satya Nadella
“Our industry does not respect tradition. It only respects innovation.”
Satya Nadella
“The learn-it-all does better than the know-it-all.”
Satya Nadella
“Empathy makes you a better innovator.”
Satya Nadella
“You have to have a growth mindset.”
Satya Nadella
“The most important attribute any employee can have is the ability to learn.”
Satya Nadella
“We needed to be bold and ambitious.”
Satya Nadella
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
Peter Drucker
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
Peter Drucker
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
Peter Drucker
“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
Peter Drucker
“What gets measured gets managed.”
Peter Drucker
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”
Peter Drucker
“The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.”
Peter Drucker
“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
Peter Drucker
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