“The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like a bacon and egg breakfast: the chick was ‘involved’ but the pig was ‘committed’.”

Anon

“The prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.”

John W Gardner

“Leadership is the activity of influencing people to co-operate towards some goal which they find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.”

Orway Tead

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit.”

Harry S Truman

“The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.”

Lao Tzu

“It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment.  But mark you, I would not be elsewhere for thousands.”

Lord Nelson at the Battle

of Copenhagen

“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.”

Henri B Stendhal

“The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say “well done”.”

John Ashcroft

Former Chair Coloroll

“It is often assumed that money is the only motivational factor. Wrong. Fear is also important. Save money. Use fear! ”

Alistair Beaton

The Little Book of Mgt Bollocks

“Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.”

Marian Anderson

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

Plutarch

“A key characteristic of transformational leaders is that they motivate people to do more than they originally expected to do.”

Elizabeth Chell

“Leaders is the new organisation do not lack motivational tools, but the tools are different from those of traditional corporate bureaucrats.  The new rewards are based not on status but on contribution, and they consist not of regular promotion and automatic pay rises, but of excitement about the mission and a share of the glory of success.”

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“We do not want satisfaction.  We want creative dissatisfaction associated with excitement about the job.  That’s what motivation is made of.”

Daniel Quinn Mills

“Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?”

Steve Jobs, Co-founder of Apple Inc persuading

John Sculley to leave Pepsi Cola