There's a special place in hell for what some people have done but there's also a special place in God's heart for their forgiveness.
If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
Leadership must be demonstrated, not announced.
Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.
There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
You can fall in the area of your strength as easily as you could fall in the area of your weakness.
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
In my experience, the skill of success breaks down into three things. The skill of marketing. The skill of sales. And the skill of leadership.
Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Everyone wants to connect with someone who people think is someone.
The worst type of employee you can have is one who has mentally quit and is still physically coming to work every day.
It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.
Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded.