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-- Sir Edmund Hillary

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Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people


Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.


If you want to be comfortable -- take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.


Leadership has to do with direction. Management has to do with the speed, coordination and logistics in going in that direction. The WORKERS are chopping their way through the jungle. The MANAGERS are coordinating, making sure the tools are sharp, etc. The LEADERS climb a tree and shout Wrong jungle!! The MANAGERS shout back Be quiet! We're making progress!


Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going


Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.


People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.


Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.


The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.


The well being of the people is the supreme law.


He who is proficient is learning, but deficient in morals, is more deficient than proficient.


If you were graduated yesterday, and have learned nothing today, you will be uneducated tomorrow.

Graduation Quotes

It is what we learn after we think we know it all, that counts.


Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.


Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.