Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.
Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple
Best Advice I Ever Got
CNNMoney.com recently asked a host of influential leaders to share some wise words that have changed their lives forever. Here is what they said.
- Tiger Woods: Keep it simple
- Jim Sinegal: Show, don’t tell
- Mort Zuckerman: Do what you love
- Lloyd Blankfein: Empower
- Mohamed El-Erian: Push beyond your comfort zone
- David Axelrod: Ignore conventional wisdom
- Tory Burch: Trust your instincts
- Jim Rogers: Read everything
- Scott Boras: Be effective, not popular
- Mika Brzezinski: Use failure to motivate yourself
- Colin Powell: Focus on performance, not power
- Shai Agassi: Take advice from smart people
- Sukhinder Singh Cassidy: Make an impression
- Eric Schmidt: Hire a coach
- Meredith Whitney: Set realistic goals
- Lauren Zalaznick: Listen
- Julian Robertson: Don’t talk shop
- Thomas Keller: Treat it like it’s yours
- Robin Li: Underpromise and over deliver
- Miles White: Don’t pursue titles and dollars
- Aaron Patzer: Self-doubt is normal
- Niklas Savander: Be nice to people
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Imitation is often wiser than innovation. Three times Paul said, “Imitate me.” If you say, “I’ll be original or nothing” you’ll be both.
Rick Warren
What’s your answer to this question?
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Jim Rohn
May you learn from a child today and try not to teach the world a lesson bathed in selfish ambitions.
Carlos Whittaker
Good ideas have lonely childhoods.
Hugh Macleod
Most of us can forgive and forget, we just don’t want the other person to forget that we forgave.
Ivern Ball
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Ghandi
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison
