- Showing your compassionate and caring nature will aid you in forging successful relationships.
- When you extinguish hope, you create desperation.
- Remember that your followers generally want to believe that what they do is their own idea and, more importantly, that it genuinely makes a difference.
- If you practice dictatorial leadership, you prepare yourself to be dictated to.
- Delegate responsibility and authority by empowering people to act on their own.
- When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.
- You must be consistently fair and decent in both the business and personal side of life.
- Never add the weight of your character to a charge against a person without knowing it to be true.
- Never crush a man out, thereby making him and his friends permanent enemies of your organization.
- Remember: Your organization will take on the personality of its top leader.
- It’s not entirely safe to allow a misrepresentation to go uncontradicted.
- Remember that truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
- Do the very best you know how – the very best you can – keep doing so until the end.
- Make consistency one of the main cogs in the machinery of your corporation.
- Remember that it is not best to swap horses when crossing streams.
- Avoid major conflict in the form of quarrels and arguments. You simply don’t have time for it.
- If you are a good leader, when your work is done, your aim fulfilled, your people will say, “We did it ourselves.’
- Try not to feel insecure or threatened by your followers.
- Let disputing parties work out their differences by bringing them together and guiding their dialogue.
- When your subordinates come up with good ideas, let them go ahead and try, but monitor their progress.
- Those leaders who achieve something at the head of one group will eclipse those who do nothing at the head of a hundred.
- Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.
- When the occasion is piled high with difficulty, rise with it.
- Think anew and act anew.
- Don’t lose confidence in your people when they fail.
- If you never try, you’ll never succeed.
- Remember that the best leaders never stop learning.
- Remember that there will be times when you should simply not speak. Say to your listeners: “Kindly let me be silent.”
- Loyalty is more often won through private conversation than in any other way.
- Remember, everyone likes a compliment.