Famous Quotes

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

J. Paul Getty on Leadership

More quotes about Leadership

• "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

  Henry Ford on Leadership

• "A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership

• "It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership."

  Nelson Mandela on Leadership

• "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

  Lao Tzu on Leadership

• "Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."

  Colin Powell on Leadership

More quotes by J. Paul Getty

• "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."

• "The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights."

• "I buy when other people are selling."

• "No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist."

• "To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business."