Leadership Inspirations – Attaining Excellence

“Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.”

Vince Lombardi (1913 – 1970)
Head Coach of the Green Bay Packers (1959 – 1967); winning five league championships. The National Football League’s Super Bowl trophy is named in his honor

Leadership Inspirations – Unspoken Truth of Inadequate Management

“The supreme irony of business management is that it is far easier for an inadequate CEO to keep his job than it is for an inadequate subordinate… At too many companies, the boss shoots the arrow of managerial performance and then hastily paints the bulls eye around the spot where it lands.”

Warren Buffett
American investor, industrialist and philanthropist

Leadership Inspirations – Issuing Orders

“It doesn’t take much talent to issue orders. It does take continued discipline to study the variety of people you are leading in order to understand what it take to motivate them – and to inspire them to do their very best to make the company and themselves a success.”

J. Fred Bucy
Director, Intrusion, Inc. and
Former President and CEO of Texas Instruments

Leadership Inspirations – Producing Happiness

“The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.”

William Ralph Inge (1860 – 1954)
English author, Anglican priest, Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral

Leadership Inspirations – Believe None of What You Hear

“People may doubt what you say but they will believe what you do.”

Lewis Cass (1782 – 1866)
American military officer and politician