Patrick Lencioni Leadership Quotes

#1. If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing ... then you are a writer.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#2. I remember so many times taking classes and feeling completely discouraged because I felt like I wasn't getting it and I couldn't understand. I kept working at it and I kept going back to class, and I wouldn't let myself get intimidated or get scared away, and it really does pay off.

Meaghan Rath

#3. As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

Patrick Lencioni

#4. The only real payoff for leadership is eternal.

Patrick Lencioni

#5. I'll only go if there's cake.

~Tobias "Four

Veronica Roth

#6. Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

Sidney Altman

#7. As long as you are motivated by the approval of others, you cannot know with confidence whether the decisions you are making in your life are what's right for you ... pg 102

John Kuypers

#8. Win?" Call said, startled. It hadn't occurred to him that Master Rufus was expecting them to win the test. Not after a whole onth of sand. "We're not going to win." He was mostly concerned with whether they would survive.
"That's the spirit." Aaron hid a grin.

Cassandra Clare

#9. Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

Patrick Lencioni

#10. Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

Patrick Lencioni

#11. Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

William Shakespeare

#12. You know men. We have delicate egos.

Cassandra Clare

#13. You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path.

Gus Van Sant

#14. There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Victor Hugo

#15. A leadership team is a small group of people who are collectively responsible for achieving a common objective for their organization.

Patrick Lencioni

#16. Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success.

Patrick Lencioni

#17. When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

Patrick Lencioni

#18. One writes to find words' meanings.

Joy Williams