Leadership Speech Quotes

Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.

Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.

What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.

Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.

It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.

Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.

The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.

Imagine if all the car makers in the world were to sit down together to design one extremely simple, embellishment-free, functional car that was made from the most environmentally-sustainable materials, how cheap to buy and humanity-and-Earth-considerate that vehicle would be. And imagine all the money that would be saved by not having different car makers duplicating their efforts, competing and trying to out-sell each other, and overall how much time that would liberate for all those people involved in the car industry to help those less fortunate and suffering in the world. Likewise, imagine when each house is no longer designed to make an individualised, ego-reinforcing, status-symbol statement for its owners and all houses are constructed in a functionally satisfactory, simple way, how much energy, labour, time and expense will be freed up to care for the wellbeing of the less fortunate and the planet.

The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.

To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.

Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.

Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?