John Baldoni Quotes

#1. The words a leader speaks are important, of course. But how they're delivered can make all the difference, especially in tough times.

John Baldoni

#2. Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals.

John Baldoni

#3. Heroism is not blind courage: it is selfless action. it is knowing the odds are stacked against you, but feeling that you must do what you do for the good of others.

John Baldoni

#4. Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

David Maister

#5. The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

Sydney J. Harris

#6. Leadership is the behavior each of us exerts when we take responsibility for our actions and their consequences.

John Baldoni

#7. Dreams be the speech of thy soul. Listen.

Tania Elizabeth

#8. The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.

John Baldoni

#9. Three things a leader or manager should be thinking: What's happening? What's not happening? and What can I do to influence the outcome?

John Baldoni

#10. Leadership is an active, living process. It is rooted in character, forged by experience, and communicated by example.

John Baldoni

#11. People who believe in themselves and in a cause greater than themselves can achieve great things-as long as they have a well-intentioned leader to point them in the right direction.

John Baldoni

#12. Leaders are creatures of their environment, but unlike most creatures, they are also movers of it. As movers of and within the organization, they push it forward, at the same time shaping it as much as it shapes them.

John Baldoni

#13. The basic line in any good verse is cadenced ... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

Kenneth Rexroth

#14. We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten to one, and weigh, all told, about three pounds - the same as our brain.

Michael Specter

#15. Through the most simple things which we do all the time, we can feel out to which degree we honor everything with our inner attention.

Charlotte Selver

#16. As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

John Stuart Mill

#17. give a reason for people to believe in what you stand for.

John Baldoni