"If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet (1749-1832)

"As the economy approaches another expansionary period and the labor markets tighten, many fear that upwards of 50%-60% of American workers will seize on the first opportunity to jump ship." 
~ Human Capital Institute (HCI).

"People must know that their ideas will be listened to, and if they have merit, acted upon. If they do, it is possible to mobilize individual creativity on a very broad scale." ~ James Champy

"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand." ~Old Chinese proverb

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there."
~ Author Unknown

"Peak performance begins with you taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you." ~ Brian Tracy

"Performance appraisal systems are like seat belts—most people believe they are necessary, but don't like to use them." ~ Dick Grote

"The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there."
~ Dale Carnegie

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." ~ M. Scott Peck

"You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself." ~ Galileo Galilei

"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it." ~ Edward R. Murrow

"The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players." ~ Blaine Lee

"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them." ~ Henry Ford

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that's assault, not leadership." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves".
~ Ray Kroc Founder of McDonald's

"I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day, you bet on people not strategies." ~ Larry Bossidy

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." ~ Dwight Eisenhower

"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm." ~ Henry Ford

"The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success." ~ H. W. Arnold

"Without goals and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination." ~ F. Dodson

"Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves. Positive leaders empower people to accomplish their goals." ~ Brian Tracy

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." ~ Babe Ruth

"What makes leadership is the ability to get people to do what they don't want to do and like it." ~ Harry Truman

"Never leave that 'til tomorrow which you can do today." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but we aim too low and reach it." ~ Michelangelo

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
~ Peter F. Drucker

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

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." ~ Dwight Eisenhower

"Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too." ~ Robert Half

"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

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."
~ James Crook

"People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led." ~ H. Ross Perot

"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." ~ The Bible

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility." ~ St. Augustine

"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves." ~ Lao-Tzu

"It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

"What you cannot enforce, do not command." ~ Sophocles

"The question, 'Who ought to be boss?', is like asking, 'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor." ~ Henry Ford

Success Quotes

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. " ~ Dale Carnegie

"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom." ~ General George S. Patton

"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail."
~ Dorothea Brande

"Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success."

"Talent is only the starting point." ~ Irving Berlin

"It's never too late to be what you might have been." ~ George Elliot

"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans." ~ Peter Drucker

"Your success in life isn't based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers and business." ~ Mark Sanborn

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing  your enthusiasm." ~ Sir Winston Churchill