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Leadership Inspiration Through Wisdom
Quotes from Legends bring clarity to your mission
Graham Peelle
January 13, 2025
Intro
Why do quotes matter? Because it’s the best of what other people have lived, achieved, done, expressed in words. It’s the recorded learning of some of the best to do it, whatever “it” is. For me, these quotes serve as amazing reminders. I am a bit confused on why some are knocking them—it makes me wonder if it’s an insecurity thing because they don’t want to hear powerful reminders of what they could do, or just the next thing to pick on? I don’t deny valuable lessons. And if I don’t agree; no big deal, I ignore it.
The Story
Here’s more on what informative or meaningful quotes do for me and how they could help you:
Develop your own frameworks for success by understanding concepts from the greats, spanning business, entertainment, and politics.
Gain inspiration to keep going, conquer, and win
Develop your board of advisors that support and guide you whether you’ve met or not
Innovate through ideation spurred by learning
Quotes that can change your life
Leadership
"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."
—Henry Kissinger
"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."
—Harvey S. Firestone
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
—John F. Kennedy
"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."
—Arnold H. Glasow
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
—John Quincy Adams
"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be."
—Rosalynn Carter
"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others."
—Bill Gates
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."
—Walter Lippmann
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
—Steve Jobs
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand."
—Gen. Colin Powell
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
—Eleanor Roosevelt
"A leader ... is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind."
—Nelson Mandela
"Don't tell people how to do things; tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."
—George S. Patton Jr.
“The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision." -Ken Blanchard
"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that count."
—Winston Churchill
“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."
—Peter Drucker
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
—Theodore Roosevelt
"A leader ... is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind."
—Nelson Mandela
My goal is to become the least powerful CEO in the world.
—Ilkka Paananen
Self-Development
“If I were replaced tomorrow, what would my successor do?”
—Andy Grove
“The best product is just you, pushed out to the world.”
—Shaan Puri (quote from trainer)
“Become so good they can’t ignore you.”
F.E.A.R = False Evidence Appearing Real
—Dan Martell
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
—Ernest Hemingway
“Never settle. Challenge yourself to give the customer everything. If they have it all, they can't live without you.”
—Bom Kim
“Decisions that keep us trapped in a life half lived.”
Same amount of wrong happens in a big audacious goal
“Safety is an illusion”
—Chase Jarvis
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
—Hellen Keller
From podcast, Creator Science, from Jay Clouse with Chase Jarvis
“A level of optimism that comes from the idea that the future will be better than the past because I’m going to play a role in making it so.” Invites people around you to join
—Nathan Berry, appearing on the Smart Friends podcast, from Eric Jorgenson
“If we do things the way everyone else is, we will be like everyone else.”
—James Watt, Co-Founder & CEO of Brewdog, on ScaleX Insider with Brendan McGurgan of Simple Scaling
“If you’re not going to do something with full passion and full force, it’s probably not worth doing in the first place”
—Alexandr Wang, CEO and founder of Scale AI (on Invest Like the Best)
Vision
“You’re not crazy, your first”
—Jamie Kern Lima, on Ed Mylett Show
“At any one time, there are only 100 people in the world whose map of reality on a complex subject-Al, global politics, interest-rate policy-is extremely accurate.”
—Graham Duncan
“We get out of life what we think we deserve.”
—Ed Mylett show
“There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
—Christopher Morley
“I asked myself, What's the hardest and most impactful thing I could imagine doing?. There was nothing bigger than this.”
—David Velez
“Interested vs Committed.” “What do you have to do to look back and say what a fucking journey”
ScaleX podcast, Brendan McGurgan, with John Assaraf
Productivity
“Get stuff out of your head. Your head’s for having ideas, not holding them”
“Pay attention to what has your attention “
“Let go. Relax. Trust your intuition.”
—David Allen on ScaleX pod
“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that in itself is a choice.”
—William James
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
—Albert Einstein
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
—Tim Ferriss
“You don’t need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.”
—Seth Godin
“Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.”
— James Clear
Closing
Embracing those who have come before us brings unique perspective and experience to your own arsenal of intelligence. “Respect the past, build a better future.”
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About the Author, Graham Peelle
