Inspirational Sayings from Transformational Leaders
Bust of Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161–180 AD, Bildnisse, Munich
David Ferrers
“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of General Electric Co.
“It is essential to remind ourselves that the pursuit of any object depends for its value on the worth of the object pursued. If, then, you would avoid discouragement, never become unduely absorbed in things that are not of the first importance.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The role of the leader is to unite and ignite the resources of the team to achieve a common goal.”
David Ferrers
“Transformational leadership can be seen when leaders and followers make each other advance to a higher level of moral and motivation.”
James MacGregor Burns
“Good management creates the organisational framework that makes an outcome possible. Transformational Leadership fires up the engines of confidence, will power and enthusiasm to achieve the result.”
David Ferrers
“You need somebody who can come up with a vision and who has the ambition to glue the team together. You also have to create an environment where people love to come to work.”
Aiden Heavey of Tullow Oil
“Leadership is working with and through others to achieve objectives.”
David Ferrers
“I think our first responsibility as humans is to think, to focus our minds and consider what we’re doing and what we ought to be doing.”
Jimmy Wales, co-founder, Wikipedia
“Enthusiasm, like measles, mumps and the common cold, is highly contagious.”
Emory Ward
Dr. Paul Hersey, Professor of Leadership Studies at Nova Southeastern University
“Danger is central to self-knowledge.”
French existentialist movement
“My obsession is the never-ending search for perfection, I have a fear of emptyness, which I fill by the act of seeking. I’m afraid if I stop seeking, then the fear of death will exert itself, or more precisely the fear of living, so extraordinary and magnificent is life.”
Eric Cantona
“Management is doing things right, leadership is doing the right things”.
Warren Bennis and Bert Nanus
“It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
Adlai Stevenson
“You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.”
Steve Jobs
“A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.”
John Gardner
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
Ralph Nader
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.”
Rosalynn Carter
“Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”
Vince Lombardi
“”Enthusiasm is the all-essential jet propeller. It is the driving force which elevates men to miracle workers. It begets boldness, courage; kindles confidence; overcomes doubts. It creates endless energy, the source of all accomplishment.”
B.C. Forbes
“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.”
Walter Lipmann
“He had a smile that could light the candles on a birthday cake.” About my hero Sir Bobby Robson
David Ferrers
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
Winston Churchill
You Too Can Be a Transformational Leader
Transformational Leadership quotes like those above show how determined leaders with charismatic visions and strong communication skills electrify the performance of their teams.
If you are leading in a situation that needs to be transformed and want to switch on “the current that inspires and energises the thoughts, ideas and actions of your people to elevate their performance,” please contact me today or freephone 0800 195 1989.
Best wishes,
“Transformational Leadership is the ability to create and transmit a charismatic vision that runs through an organisation like an electric current, inspiring and energising the thoughts, ideas and actions of the people to elevate their performance.”
© David Ferrers
