Top 100 Warren G Quotes
#1. I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
Utah Phillips
#2. FOR WARREN G. HARDING, the summer of 1927 was not a good one, which was perhaps a little surprising since he had been dead for nearly four years by then.
Bill Bryson
#3. The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. - WARREN G. BENNIS,
Timothy Ferriss
#4. G.E. doesn't pay any taxes, and we are asking college kids to take on even more debt to get an education and asking seniors to get by on less. These aren't just economic questions. These are moral questions.
Elizabeth Warren
#5. There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.
Warren G. Harding
#6. A lot of people in my family have high blood pressure. Dre told me I better start hitting the gym ... so I took his advice.
Warren G
#7. Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group.
Warren G. Bennis
#8. I would like the government to do all it can to mitigate, then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good, our tasks will be solved.
Warren G
#9. To be authentic is literally to be your own author, to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.
Warren G. Bennis
#10. Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
Warren G. Bennis
#11. Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part
Warren G. Bennis
#12. I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips.
Warren G. Harding
#13. I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.
Warren G. Harding
#15. My once-keen analytical mind has become so dulled by endless hours of baking in the hot sun, thrashing about in tight chimneys, pulling at impossibly heavy loads, freezing my ass off ... so that now my mental state is comparable to that of a Peruvian Indian, well stoked on coca leaves ...
Warren G. Harding
#16. Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.
Warren G. Bennis
#17. Once you recognize, or admit, that your primary goal is to fully express yourself, you will find the means to achieve the rest of your goals ...
Warren G. Bennis
#19. The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.
Warren G. Bennis
#20. People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support
Warren G. Bennis
#21. Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.
Warren G. Bennis
#23. I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
Warren G. Harding
#24. I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
Warren G. Harding
#26. It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
Warren G. Bennis
#27. The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
Warren G. Bennis
#28. LUCY and Desi. Lucy and Ricky. As far as the public knew, the private life of the Arnazes closely resembled that of the Ricardos on the TV screen; a camera crew just dropped by once a week to film a half hour of slapstick and tender kisses.
Warren G. Harris
#29. Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.
Warren G. Bennis
#31. We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.
Warren G. Harding
#33. The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally,
and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures
Warren G. Bennis
#34. Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend
Warren G. Harding
#36. I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.
Warren G. Harding
#37. The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.
Warren G. Harding
#38. In order to serve its purpose, a vision has to be a shared vision.
Warren G. Bennis
#39. Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
Warren G. Harding
#40. Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
Warren G. Bennis
#41. The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.
Warren G. Bennis
#42. The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.
Warren G. Bennis
#43. Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
Warren G. Bennis
#44. Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.
Warren G. Bennis
#45. Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.
Warren G. Bennis
#46. The president is the cuticle of the nail bed of America: one would think pushing back makes him stronger, yet it turns out the opposite is true.
Warren G. Harding
#47. Honesty is the great essential. It exalts the individual citizenship, and, without honesty, no man deserves the confidence of the people in private pursuit or in public office.
Warren G. Harding
#48. A passion for continual learning, a refined, discerning ear for the moral and ethical consequences of their actions, and an understanding of the purposes of work and human organisations
Warren G. Bennis
#51. Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership.
Warren G. Bennis
#52. More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.
Warren G. Bennis
#53. Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial.
Warren G. Harding
#54. He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.
Warren G. Harding
#55. Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.
Warren G. Bennis
#56. In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Warren G. Bennis
#57. I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was,
Warren G. Harding
#58. The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.
Warren G. Bennis
#59. The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders
are made rather than born.
Warren G. Bennis
#61. Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
Warren G. Bennis
#62. Death Row had a lot of artists. They had Snoop, the Dogg Pound, the Lady of Rage, and there was other artists that was also on the label, so it was a big list and a long wait. I didn't want to wait that long, so I started branching off and doing my own thing.
Warren G
#63. The ideal boss for a growing leader is probably a good boss with major flaws, so that one can learn all the complex lessons of what to do and what not to do simultaneously.
Warren G. Bennis
#64. The ruling quality of leaders adaptive capacity, is what allows true leaders to make the nimble decisions that bring success. Adaptive capacity is also what allows some people to transcend the setbacks and losses that come with age and to reinvent themselves again and again.
Warren G
#65. I'd end all of the wars. I'd bring all of the troops home and make sure that they're taken care of for life - for what they did protecting our country.
Warren G
#66. Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.
Warren G. Bennis
#67. Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.
Warren G. Bennis
#68. Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.
Warren G. Bennis
#69. It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.
Warren G. Harding
#71. What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.
Warren G. Bennis
#72. If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.
Warren G. Bennis
#73. Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.
Warren G. Bennis
#74. The leader ... is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.
Warren G. Bennis
#75. Government is like an onion. To understand it, you have to peel through many different layers. Most outsiders never get beyond the first or second layer.
Warren G. Bennis
#77. If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"
Warren G. Bennis
#78. A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.
Warren G. Bennis
#79. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless or it is no virtue at all. It is only when things are hopeless that hope begins to be a strength (G. K. Chesterton). Hope is an undefeated forward look.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#80. I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.
Warren G. Bennis
#81. Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.
Warren G. Bennis
#82. If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.
Warren G
#83. Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.
Warren G. Harding
#85. Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work ... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.
Warren G. Bennis
#86. Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.
Warren G. Bennis
#87. Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.
Warren G. Bennis
#88. Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
Warren G. Bennis
#89. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Warren G. Bennis
#90. Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.
Warren G. Bennis
#91. Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
Warren G. Bennis
#92. Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.
Warren G. Bennis
#94. There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation of the Republic. I hold it [religious intolerance] to be a menace to the very liberties which we boast and cherish.
Warren G. Harding
#95. While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.
Warren G. Bennis
#96. I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!
Warren G. Harding
#97. We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.
Warren G. Harding
#98. The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.
Warren G. Harding
#99. Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
Warren G. Bennis
#100. If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power.
Warren G. Bennis
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