“What you are comes to you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let him that would move the world, first move himself.” – Socrates

“In motivating people, you’ve got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example—and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.” – Rupert Murdoch

“If you pick the right people and give them opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it, you almost don’t have to manage them.” – Jack Welch

“Never ask the barber if you need a haircut.” – Warren Buffett

“I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.” – Charles Schwab

“Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.” – Sam Walton

“Whatever we do must be in accord with human nature. We cannot drive people; we must direct their development…the general policy of the past has been to drive; but the era of force must give way to that of knowledge, and the policy of the future will be to teach and lead, to the advantage of all concerned.” – Henry Gantt

“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” – Napoleon Hill

“Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.” – Peter Drucker

“A manager is an assistant to his men.” – Thomas J. Watson

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.” – Peter F. Drucker

“He that fears you present will hate you absent.” – Thomas Fuller

“I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.” – Lee Lacocca

“The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.” – Harold S. Geneen

“Invest in yourself. Your career is the engine of your wealth.” – Paul Clitheroe

“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.” – Oscar Wilde

“A good system shortens the road to the goal.” – Orison Swett Marden

“I’m not going to give you a map. I can give you only a great passion to discover. Yes, a map is not needed; great passion, great desire to discover is needed. Then I leave you alone. Then you go on your own.” – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.” – Winston Churchill