Insightful Quotes for Task Management
 

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."
~ Andrew Carnegie

 

"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."
~ Peter F. Drucker

 

"There's a way to do it better - find it."
~ Thomas Edison



"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."
~ Arnold H. Glasgow



"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after."
~ Oliver Goldsmith

 

“Most companies don’t die because they are wrong; most die because they don’t commit themselves . . . You have to have a strong leader setting a direction. And it doesn’t even have to be the best direction—just a strong, clear one.”
~ Andy Grove, CEO, Intel

 

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



"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. "
~Martin Luther King


 

"Inventories can be managed, but people must be led."
~ H. Ross Perot



"A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term."
 ~ Robert Reich



"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."
~ Jim Rohn

 

"Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something."
 ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

"When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure."
~ Robert Townsend



“There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”
~ Booker T. Washington



“Making initiatives successful is all about focus and passionate commitment. The drumbeat must be relentless. Every leadership action must demonstrate total commitment to the initiative.”
~ Jack Welch, Former CEO, General Electric