Quotes - David Robinson (The United States) Showing 1-29 of 29

#1

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: advice-for-daily-living, leadership, self-control

1816 likes

#2

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: courage, fear, leadership, strength

986 likes

#3

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: leadership

837 likes

#4

“Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

tags: leadership

588 likes

#5

“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

tags: courage, freedom, inspirational-attitude, leadership, politics, revolution, society, strength

1321 likes

#6

“Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
― George S. Patton

tags: leadership

515 likes

#7

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
― Peter Drucker, Essential Drucker

tags: leadership

576 likes

#8

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

[Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: leadership, learning

334 likes

#9

“A bit of advice
Given to a young Native American
At the time of his initiation:
As you go the way of life,
You will see a great chasm. Jump.
It is not as wide as you think.”
― Joseph Campbell

tags: leadership

330 likes

#10

“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
― John C. Maxwell

tags: inspirational, leadership, management

305 likes

#11

“If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.”
― Tom Peters, Thriving on Chaos: Handbook for a Management Revolution

tags: complexity, confusion, leadership

245 likes

#12

“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
― John Maxwell

tags: leadership

760 likes

#13

“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: advice, apple, business, creativity, ileadership, leadership, mac, macintosh

872 likes

#14

“Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”
― Colin Powell, On Leadership

tags: leadership, responsibility

292 likes

#15

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: leadership, management

283 likes

#16

“Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.”
― George S. Patton Jr., The Patton principles

tags: leadership, military

353 likes

#17

“The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
― Colin Powell

tags: leadership, leading, military

196 likes

#18

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ”
― Henry Kissinger

tags: leadership

86 likes

#19

“Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.”
― John C. Maxwell, The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

tags: encouragement, leadership

32 likes

#20

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength

5992 likes

#21

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: integrity, morality

2969 likes

#22

“I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.”
― Jonathan Ive, As Little Design as Possible

6 likes

#23

“So much of what we try to do is get to a point where the solution seems inevitable: you know, you think "of course it's that way, why would it be any other way?" It looks so obvious, but that sense of inevitability in the solution is really hard to achieve.”
― Jonathan Ive, As Little Design as Possible

tags: apple, designer, graphicdesign

3 likes

#24

“What you don't know may not hurt you, but what you don't remember always does.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg

tags: humor, philosphical

15 likes

#25

“People don't become leaders because they never fail. They become leaders because of the way they respond to failure.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

tags: leadership

8 likes

#26

“If you are a leader, the people are your work.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

5 likes

#27

“In the seed model, Leadership is the process of creating an environment in which people become empowered.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader

2 likes

#28

“problem-solving leaders have one thing in common: a faith that there’s always a better way”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

2 likes

#29

“Once you eliminate your number one problem, number two gets a promotion.”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

5 likes

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