Leadership Quotes

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Scaling requires both in equal measure."

"As you scale, you have to move from being a player to being a coach. Your success is no longer about your own output, but the output of your team."

"The goal is not to win the game, the goal is to keep playing the game and bring as many people along as possible."

"A tribe is a group of people connected to one another... and an idea."

"Win-win is a frame of mind and heart that constantly seeks mutual benefit."

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

"To achieve anything significant, you must be willing to be misunderstood for a long period of time."

"Integrity is the only strategy that survives the brutal iteration of combat and organizational leadership."

"When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that will come from it. Derailed? Good."

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

"It is not the critic who counts... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood."

"Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome."

"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."

"A leader is a dealer in hope."

"Cash flow is the most important indicator of a company's health. It doesn't lie."

"Efficiency in how we move resources determines how fast we can scale our impact."

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."

"Discipline equals freedom."

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny."

"Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war."

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

"The time is always right to do what is right."

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

"The first rule of the struggle is: Don't put it all on your shoulders."

"The hard thing isn’t setting a big, hairy, audacious goal. The hard thing is laying people off when you miss the big goal."