750 Best Leadership Trust Quotes To Inspire You (2023)

1. “The future belongs to the young. We must not only trust them with responsibility but must thrust it upon them whilst they are still young and full of energy, zest, hope and even illusions.” – JRD Tata

2. “While leading others your ability to engage and influence across a full spectrum of perspectives and personalities is more important than your authority and seniority.”

3. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” Brian Tracy

4. “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” – Jack Welch

5. “The one who does not trust enough, will not be trusted.” – Lao Tzu

6. “That’s what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.”

7. “Don’t show up to prove. Show up to improve.”

8. “The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.”

9. “When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.” – HOWARD SCHULTZ

10. “What’s measured improves.”

11. “The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” – GENERAL COLIN POWELL Twitter-Bird Small

12. “Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.” – Maria Snyder

13. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward, author

14. “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” – OSCAR WILDE Twitter-Bird Small

15. “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into the flames of achievement.” Foster C. McClella

16. Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them– John Maxwell

17. “Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.” – SETH GODIN Twitter-Bird Small

18. “When the trust is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.” – Stephen Covey

19. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” – John Maxwell

20. “Find a way to look positive and proactive. Find a way that everybody’s morale stays up.”

21. “Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention, and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.” Edward de Bono

22. “Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.”

23. “The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.” – Henry L. Stimson

24. “Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.” – Steve Wozniak

25. “The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.” – HENRY L. STIMSON Twitter-Bird Small

26. “A culture is strong when people work with each other, for each other. A culture is weak when people work against each other, for themselves.”

27. “Leadership is a commitment to excellence”

28. Letting go of the security of what is commonly understood requires a big leap of faith and a willingness to fall. - Author: Henry Kimsey-House

29. “You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.”

30. “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” Bob Marley

31. “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” —Albert Einstein

32. “Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.” Brian Tracy

33. 'Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.''

34. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” — Stephen Covey, author, businessman and speaker

35. “A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see and who sees before others see.” – Leroy Eimes, author and leadership expert

36. “Vision is a destination – a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route – an adaptable path to get us where we want to go.”

37. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte, military leader

38. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” George Patton

39. “My methods of leadership are what brought me to this base.”

40. “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.

41. “An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.” – Dean Kamen

42. A great leader creates trust and inspires loyalty among those who follow. - Abraham Lincoln

43. “Words may inspire but only action creates change.”

44. “It takes a great man to be a good listener.” – Calvin Coolidge

45. “Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” – THEODORE ROOSEVELT

46. A successful leader understands that trust needs to be earned before it can be given– Unknown

47. “You manage things; you lead people.” – Grace Murray Hopper, U.S. Navy rear admiral

48. Believe you can and you will be halfway there. - Author: Lolly Daskal

49. “Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?” Brain Tracy

50. “A good general Reports successes and conceals mishaps.”

51. “Leadership is not a license to do less; it is a responsibility to do more.”

52. “There are only two things in a business that make money – innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.”

53. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams

54. “Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.” —Booker T. Washington

55. “If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.” John C. Maxwell

56. “Trust starts with trustworthy leadership. It must be built into the corporate culture.” – BARBARA BROOKS KIMMEL Twitter-Bird Small

57. “The bottom line on culture and grit is: If you want to be grittier, find a gritty culture and join it. If you’re a leader, and you want the people in your organization to be grittier, create a gritty culture.”

58. “Progress is more important than perfection.”

59. “I wouldn’t ask anyone to do anything I wouldn’t do myself.” – INDRA NOOYI Twitter-Bird Small

60. “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.” Jessica Jackley

61. ″ ‘Action stations!’ James shouted. ‘Jump to it! There’s not a moment to lose!’ He was the captain now, and everyone knew it. They would do whatever he told them.”

62. “Do the right thing. Always.” – TED COINÉ Twitter-Bird Small

63. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

64. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams

65. “The customer rarely buys what the company thinks it’s selling.”

66. Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability. - Author: Patrick Lencioni

67. The answers to these questions will determine your success or failure. 1) Can people trust me to do what's right? 2) Am I committed to doing my best? 3) Do I care about other people and show it? If the answers to these questions are yes, there is no way you can fail. - Author: Lou Holtz

68. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” William Falkner

69. Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust. - Author: Judith M Bardwick

70. “Many of these leaders, however (perhaps due to the natural and understandable biases against pedagogy) have ended up using the ‘educational’ methods employed by the oppressor. They deny pedagogical action in the liberation process, but they use propaganda to convince.”

71. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” – John Buchan, novelist, historian and politician

72. TRUST RESULTS FROM MERIT AND ACCOUNTABILITY - Author: Miguel Reynolds Brandao

73. “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

74. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward.

75. “It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” – Warren Buffett

76. “People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.” Brian Tracy

77. The first job of a leader - at work or at home - is to inspire trust. It's to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility. - Author: Stephen M.R. Covey

78. “Leadership requires five ingredients–brains, energy, determination, trust, and ethics. The key challenges today are in terms of the last two–trust and ethics.” —Fred Hilmer

79. “Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure.”

80. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

81. “Great leaders check their ego at the door and empower others to excel” – Deborah Gillis

82. “The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.”

83. “...which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are.”

84. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” Jack Welch

85. “Measure your impact in humanity, not in the likes, but the lives you touch; not in popularity, but in the people you serve. I found that my life got bigger when I stopped caring about what other people thought about me. You will find yours will too. Stay focused on what really matters. There will be times when your resolve to serve humanity will be tested. Be prepared. People will try to convince you that you should keep your empathy out of your career. Don’t accept this false premise.” Tim Cook

86. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

87. “Conviction, commitment, credibility: the three pillars of morally courageous leadership.” – General John Michel

88. A leader's purpose is to provide knowledge and generate trust through kindness. This will provide a foundation that allows others to make choices, right or wrong, and grow in a positive manner from the experience. - Author: Farshad Asl

89. “Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.” – WARREN BENNIS Twitter-Bird Small

90. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” – Oprah Winfrey

91. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” Brian Tracy

92. “If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings — and put compensation as a carrier behind it — you almost don’t have to manage them.” Jack Welch

93. “No matter how vital we think the role of leadership in the rise of a mass movement, there is no doubt that the leader cannot create the conditions which make the rise of a movement possible. He cannot conjure a movement out of the void. There has to be an eagerness to follow and obey, and an intense dissatisfaction with things as they are, before movement and leader can make their appearance.”

94. “A true leader has faith in his ability even if no one else does" – Nick Vujicic

95. “Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.”

96. “Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.” – U.S. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

97. 'Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.''

98. “Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.” Rita Mae Brown

99. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – President John Quincy Adams

100. ”Trust is built with consistency.” – Lincoln Chafee

101. “Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.” Albert Einstein

102. “The real achiever do one thing at a time.”

103. 'Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.''

104. “Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.” – Rosabeth Moss Kanter

105. “Trust is built with consistency.” Lincoln Chafee

106. “None of my ten friends, even today, ascribes moral evil to Hitler, although most of them think (after the fact) that he made fatal strategical mistakes which even they themselves might have made at the time. His worst mistake was his selection of advisers—a backhand tribute to the Leader’s virtues of trustfulness and loyalty, to his very innocence of the knowledge of evil, fully familiar to those who have heard partisans of F. D. R. or Ike explain how things went wrong.”

107. “If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.”

108. “There's no right management style, be yourself with focus on what needs to be done and you'll automatically have to do less to be a good leader.”

109. “In today’s fast-paced business world, the more trust you have across your organisation, the faster you can operate.” Marie-Claire Ross, Author, Trusted to Thrive: How leaders create connected and accountable teams.

110. “BDSM, in its nature, is a very intimate and intelligent therapy, if done properly.”

111. “Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.”

112. “The three ‘C’s’ of leadership are consideration, caring, and courtesy. Be polite to everyone.” Brian Tracy

113. “The supreme quality of leadership is unquestionably integrity.” – DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Twitter-Bird Small

114. “Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.”

115. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.” Brian Tracy

116. “No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.” Andrew Carnegie

117. “In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.”“In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.”

118. “Trust is built when someone is vulnerable and not taken advantage of.” – Bob Vanourek

119. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.” Ken Blanchard

120. “Leadership is fragile. It is more a matter of mind and heart than resources, and it seemed that we no longer had the heart for those things that demanded discipline, commitment, and risk.”

121. “The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I.’ And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I.’ They don’t think ‘I.’ They think ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.” —Peter Drucker, author of Managing for the Future

122. Trust. And be trusted. - Author: Richie Norton

123. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” Ronald Reagan

124. “Some leaders think all of life and business is a start-up. ‘More, more, more,’ is their mantra. That can kill a business that could have had very good life if someone had seen that sowing had to stop and operating had to begin.”

125. “Always tell the truth or the truth will tell on you.” – Frank Sonnenberg

126. “Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.” – Japanese Proverb

127. “Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.”

128. “Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise”– Unknown

129. “Customers will never love a company until its employees love it first.”

130. “Employee engagement can be improved by cultivating trust within an organization's culture" – Steve Jobs

131. 'The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.'' - George Washington, 1st President of the United States, and Commanding General of the Continental Army

132. “Earn your leadership every day.” Michael Jordan

133. “It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but just as much to stand up to your friends” – Albert Einstein

134. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” John F. Kennedy

135. ″ The American system of Government could not function if every man in a position of responsibility approached each problem... as a problem in higher mathematics.”

136. “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.” – Norman Schwarzkopf

137. “The critical question is not “How can I achieve?” but “What can I contribute?””

138. “It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.” – ZIG ZIGLAR Twitter-Bird Small

139. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” Nelson Mandela

140. “Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn’t said.”

141. “Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.”

142. “Purpose affirms trust, trust affirms purpose and together they forge individuals into a working team.” Coleman Ruiz, Navy SEAL

143. “Allah's Messenger ﷺ fought [with us] in severe heat, struggling on our long journey, against the desert and the great strength of the enemy.”

144. “Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.”

145. “Don’t be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.” Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense

146. “If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.”

147. “Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.”

148. “People learn the most when teaching others.”

149. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” – Sheryl Sandberg

150. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” – Theodore M. Hesburgh

151. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Warren Bennis

152. Employee Engagement: The state at which there is reciprocal trust between the employee and leadership to do what's right however, whenever and with whomever. - Author: Dan Pontefract

153. “Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.” Orrin Woodward

154. “Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.” Diogenes of Sinope

155. “If you want to earn people’s trust, the #1 thing you can do is prove to them that you actually care.” Shane Snow

156. “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

157. Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER. - Author: Richie Norton

158. “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – DALAI LAMA Twitter-Bird Small

159. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell

160. “Done is better than perfect.” – Sheryl Sandberg

161. “The best leaders have the ability to effectively communicate, engage, and influence across a full spectrum of different perspectives and personalities. ”

162. “When things go wrong in your command, start wading for the reason in increasing larger concentric circles around your own desk.”

163. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower” – Steve Jobs

164. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” John C. Maxwell

165. “Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet – thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing – consistently.” – LANCE SECRETAN

166. “Trust doesn’t mean that you trust that someone won’t screw up—it means you trust them when they do screw up.” – Ed Catmull, CEO, Pixar

167. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

168. “Individuals on teams with high trust bring in more revenue, are less likely to leave Google, are more likely to harness the power of diverse ideas from their teammates and are rated as effective twice as often by executives. There is no team without trust.” Paul Santagata, Head of Industry at Google

169. “To lead people, walk beside them. As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence … When the best leader’s work is done, the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!’” – Lao Tzu, philosopher

170. “Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.” Warren G. Bennis

171. “A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.” – HAROLD MACMILLAN Twitter-Bird Small

172. “So, if a son that is by his father sent about

173. “Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

174. “Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. Courage breeds creativity; Cowardice represses fear and is mastered by it. Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

175. “Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.” Eric Sevareid

176. Building trust with others is one of the most important things a leader can do.” - Richard Branson

177. The most effective way to inspire people to higher levels of performance is by example– John C Maxwell

178. “Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.”

179. “Doug Conant is remarkable—and so is this work.“

180. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” – Sam Walton

181. “Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.” —Warren Bennis

182. Resilient communities relied on informal networks of deep trust to contend with and heal disruption. - Author: Andrew Zolli

183. Facts and intuition are false opposites.

184. “Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.”

185. “Successful people are good in four areas: relationships, equipping, attitude, and leadership.”

186. “Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.” Ross Perot

187. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” M.D. Arnold

188. “To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” – GEORGE MACDONALD Twitter-Bird Small

189. “We fail when we deem leadership at work to be more important than leadership at home.” Jim Woods

190. “If you want it, measure it. If you can’t measure it, forget it.”

191. “The red mist of anger cleared suddenly from Daniel’s mind. He looked at the man who had been his leader. He saw the coarsened face with its tangle of dirty beard. He saw the hard mouth, the calculating little eyes. He saw a man he had never really looked at before.”

192. “When people don’t trust each other everything is slow and takes a million meetings. It’s like sludge and they block each other. Nothing moves quickly. You end up doubling up on resources. If you could just trust each other, you could talk about issues.” Kate Morris, CEO, Adore Beauty

193. “Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean.” – MIGUEL ÁNGEL RUIZ Twitter-Bird Small

194. “The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.” Oprah Winfrey

195. “The best leaders build trust from the inside out. An organization that does not have the trust of its employees can never earn the trust of its customers.” – Scott Baradell

196. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Twitter-Bird Small

197. “To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” – George Macdonald

198. I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust. - Author: Stanley A. McChrystal

199. “Trust starts with trustworthy leadership. It must be built into the corporate culture.” – Barbara Brooks Kimmel

200. “Don’t be afraid to show your vulnerability. Be transparent with your team, even when the truth may be unpopular or inconvenient.” – BILL GEORGE Twitter-Bird Small

201. “Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.” – Aesop

202. You are a leader when your actions encourage someone to reveal himself with hope, courage, confidence and trust. - Author: Debasish Mridha

203. “It isn’t enough, what I’ve done in the past, defying the Capitol in the Games, providing a rallying point. I must now become the actual leader, the face, the voice, the embodiment of the revolution.”

204. “Do not wait; the time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” Napoleon Hill

205. When you trust your own abilities and those of the people around you, you overcome fear. And when the people you lead trust themselves and you - that you have their best interests at heart and are authentic - is when you and they will achieve the most. - Author: Phil Dourado

206. “People who take unnecessary risks are those who do not take necessary risks”

207. “The ability to establish, grow, extend, and restore trust is the key professional and personal competency of our time.” – STEPHEN M.R. COVEY Twitter-Bird Small

208. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” – Donald McGannon

209. “A team fused by trust and purpose is much more potent. They can improvise a coordinated response to dynamic, real-time developments.” General Stanley McChrystal

210. “A boss who micromanages is like a coach who wants to get in the game. Leaders guide and support and then sit back to cheer from the sidelines.”

211. “Effective action comes from making decisions based on facts, not fear." – Oprah Winfrey

212. “There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.”

213. “A leader’s job is not to do the work for others; it’s to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.”

214. “There are no rules here. We’re trying to accomplish something.” – Thomas Edison

215. The deeper your relationship with others, the more effective will be your leadership. People will not follow you if they do not trust you, and before someone will lend you a hand, you must first touch their heart. - Author: Robin Sharma

216. “Leadership skills are acquired through directed study and practice in real-life situations.” - Anonymous

217. “Leaders live by choice, not by accident.” – Mark Gorman

218. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” John C. Maxwell

219. “Trust is built when someone is vulnerable and not taken advantage of.” —Bob Vanourek, author of Triple Crown Leadership

220. “There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.”

221. “The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.”

222. “When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.”

223. “Leadership is an achievement of trust.”

224. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” Reverend Theodore Hesburgh

225. “The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.” Brian Tracy

226. “The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.” – Albert Einstein, physicist

227. “Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs.”

228. “Vulnerability is the gift I give to those I trust, when I trust myself. A leader’s authenticity is rooted and grows in a field of self-trust.” Terry Kellogg and Marvel Harrison

229. Leadership requires followership and following is an act of trust, faith in the course of the leader, and that faith can be generated only if leaders act with integrity. - Author: Lawrence M. Miller

230. “It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.” – ZIG ZIGLAR

231. “Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.” – Roy T. Bennett

232. “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”

233. “The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders, and continually develops them.” John Maxwell

234. “Be firm and fixated on your goal but, be free and flexible in your goings.”

235. “Great teams consist of individuals who have learned to trust each other. Over time, they have discovered each other’s strengths and weaknesses, enabling them to play as a coordinated whole.” – Amy Edmondson

236. “We’d achieve more if we chase the dream instead of the competition.”

237. “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” – Albert Einstein

238. “When the war was over, while Colonel Aureliano Buendía was sneaking about through the narrow trails of permanent subversion, General Moncada was named magistrate of Macondo. He wore civilian clothes, replaced the soldiers with unarmed policemen, enforced the amnesty laws, and helped a few families of Liberals who had been killed in the war.”

239. “A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.” Simon Sinek

240. “Leadership is igniting the creative magic within you that adds joy and value to you and others.”

241. “It’s more important to do the right thing than to do things right.”

242. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams

243. Teamwork and trust trump ego and arrogance in building high performance sustainable successful teams. Rethink your team building ideas - Author: Tony Dovale

244. When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you. - Author: Israelmore Ayivor

245. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy

246. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State

247. “The purpose of a business is to create a customer.”

248. “Your words and deeds must match if you expect employees to trust in your leadership.” – Kevin Kruse

249. “Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet – thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing – consistently.” – LANCE SECRETAN Twitter-Bird Small

250. “Trust doesn’t mean that you trust that someone won’t screw up—it means you trust them when they do screw up.” Ed Catmull, CEO, Pixar

251. “The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.” Stewart Butterfield

252. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” Albert Schweitzer

253. “Earn your leadership every day.” – MICHAEL JORDAN Twitter-Bird Small

254. “The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.” – Brandon Sanderson

255. “Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.” – WALTER CRONKITE

256. In many situations involving service recovery - the problem itself became the catalyst for the creation of even greater trust as the companies took the issues head-on and worked through the difficult problem in a way that restored confidence. - Author: Stephen Covey

257. “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.”

258. “Trust starts with trustworthy leadership. It must be built into the corporate culture.” – Barbara Kimmel Brooks

259. “My father always said, ‘Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf.’”– Emilia Clarke

260. “Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.” —Isaac Watts

261. We develop trust when we show that we are reliable, by doing what we say we are going to do to take care of that treasure, and then stepping it up by doing more, by anticipating problems and handling them before they even happen. - Author: Michele Jennae

262. “Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.” – Booker T. Washington

263. “You have to create a culture where everybody has an opportunity to be recognized.” – JOHN MACKEY Twitter-Bird Small

264. “The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes.”

265. “Do the right thing. Always.” – Ted Coine

266. “People follow leaders by choice. Without trust, at best you get compliance.” – Jesse Lyn Stoner

267. “No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him" - W J Bryan

268. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness already lies within them" – Bethany Hamilton

269. “Leaders set high standards. refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.” Brian Tracy

270. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” Ralph Nader

271. “A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.”

272. “Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.” James Freeman Clark

273. “If you really want to grow as an entrepreneur, you’ve got to learn to delegate.” Richard Branson

274. “The success of a leader is closely tied to the caliber of their managerial team. EXCEPTIONAL MANAGERS ARE CRUCIAL TO ACHIEVING A LEADER'S GOALS AND OBJECTIVES.”

275. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

276. “Leadership is not a position but an energy that people love, trust and follow.”

277. “One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” – BRYANT MCGILL

278. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” – Kenneth Blanchard

279. “Management is about the position; leadership is a disposition that goes beyond positions. Managers minimize risks; leaders maximize contribution. Managers work through structures of stability; leaders work through dynamic change. While managers are defined by their position, leaders can emerge from any position.”

280. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent Van Gogh

281. “Great teams have trust at the heart of their success. If you don’t trust each other, you’ll play safe. Trust makes it possible to aim higher. To leap further and to know someone has your back if you fall.” – Adam Grant

282. Soldiers must possess integrity in order to build trust and confidence in themselves, our leadership, and the American public. Among the things I've learned during my career is that you must be honest with everyone about everything. - Author: Glen E. Morrell

283. “Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John C. Maxwell

284. TRUST AND FAIRNESS DEVELOP HARMONY - Author: Miguel Reynolds Brandao

285. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis

286. “The key to success is action.” Brian Tracy

287. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a moulder of consensus. - Martin Luther King Jr

288. “When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.” —Patanjali

289. “Those who trust us educate us.” George Eliot

290. ReThink Real Success: Keeping your word to others and never lying to yourself - Author: Tony Dovale

291. “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”

292. “Be the leader you wish you had.”

293. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward.

294. “Time will dig my heart deep to drain the shallow streams of grief.”

295. “Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, evenharder.” Maria V. Snyder

296. “Marketing is not a function, it is the whole business seen from the customer’s point of view.”

297. “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.” Dwight D. Eisenhower

298. “As you go to work, your top responsibility should be to be trust.” – Robert Eckert

299. ‘I’m chief. I’ll go. Don’t argue.’ ”

300. “Leadership is the relentless pursuit of truth and ceaseless creation of trust.” Jack Welch, Ex-CEO, General Electric

301. “If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.”

302. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.” – Mother Teresa

303. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” – John C. Maxwell

304. Every time we decide to use our power to influence others, particularly if we're gleeful and hasty, we damage the relationship. We move from enjoying a healthy partnership based on trust and mutual respect to establishing a police state that requires constant monitoring. - Author: Kerry Patterson

305. “The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.” – Abraham Lincoln

306. “When mistrust comes in, loves goes out.” —Irish proverb

307. “Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.”

308. “Without trust, you generate a dysfunctional organisation and teams. There is no meaningful connection between a group of people. It’s just meaningless coordination. It is trust that shifts a group of people into a team.” Marie-Claire Ross, CEO, Trustologie

309. “Shut up,” said Ralph absently. He lifted the conch. “Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things.”

310. “The President of the United States is not subject to quite the same test of political courage as a Senator.”

311. “It is necessary for a prince to have the people friendly.”

312. “Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people.” – STEPHEN R. COVEY Twitter-Bird Small

313. “Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.” Oprah Winfrey

314. “If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood, sweat, and tears.”

315. “The most important thing a leader must learn is to listen." - Richard Branson

316. Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership. - Author: John C. Maxwell

317. “Good leadership is like exercise. We do not see any improvement to our bodies with day-to-day comparisons. In fact, if we only compare the way our bodies look on a given day to how they looked the previous day, we would think our efforts had been wasted. It’s only when we compare pictures of ourselves over a period of weeks or months that we can see a stark difference. The impact of leadership is best judged over time.”

318. “We fought and won the race in space and listened to the cries of the Apollo 1 crew. With great resolve and personal anger, we picked up the pieces, pounded them together, and went on the attack again. We were the ones in the trenches of space and with only the tools of leadership, trust, and teamwork, we contained the risks and made the conquest of space possible.”

319. “Vulnerability is not weakness.” – BRENÉ BROWN Twitter-Bird Small

320. “Leaders strengthen credibility by demonstrating that they are not in it for themselves; instead, they have the interests of the institution, department, or team and its constituents at heart. Being a servant may not be what many leaders had in mind when they choose to take responsibility for the vision and direction of their organization or team, but serving others is the most glorious and rewarding of all leadership tasks.”

321. “The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.” – ALBERT EINSTEIN Twitter-Bird Small

322. “One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” – BRYANT MCGILL Twitter-Bird Small

323. “Respect is the key determinant of high-performance leadership. how much people respect you determines how well they perform.” Brian Tracy

324. “The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.”

325. “Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.” – JIM ROHN Twitter-Bird Small

326. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” John C. Maxwell

327. “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.” – Amy Rees Anderson

328. “The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you’ll find the rest of the journey much easier.”

329. “Trust, but verify.” —Ronald Reagan

330. “I’ve lived with these men, sir, for two and a half years and I will not order them all to their deaths.”

331. “Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.” – WALTER CRONKITE Twitter-Bird Small

332. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln

333. “It’s never necessary to tell me that you think I’m right. We’ll just... assume it.”

334. Leadership excellence means that you must be accepted as a leader, not forcing yourself upon those you lead. Outside of formal authority, it takes trust for people to accept your leadership. Proven consistent leadership choices and results will earn you invaluable points of trust. - Author: Archibald Marwizi

335. “When mistrust comes in, love goes out.” – Irish proverb

336. “Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.” Santosh Kalwar

337. “Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

338. “Business has only two basic functions – marketing and innovation.”

339. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas Jefferson

340. “Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

341. “Self-awareness is the companion of good leadership”

342. “If people like you, they will listen to you. but if people trust you, they will do business with you.” – Zig Ziglar

343. “People will trust their leaders when their leaders do the things that make them feel psychologically safe.”

344. “A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.” Simon Sinek

345. “Hazel’s anxiety and the reason for it were soon known to all the rabbits and there was not one who did not realize what they were up against. There was nothing very startling in what he had said. He was simply the one—as a Chief Rabbit ought to be—through whom a strong feeling, latent throughout the warren, had come to the surface.”

346. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.” – Steve Jobs

347. “The race for Quality has no finish line – so technically, it’s more like a death march. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”

348. “If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” Harvey Mackay

349. “Business is about people, and your reputation is built on how you treat people.” – BRUCE RAUNER Twitter-Bird Small

350. “The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then guide the horse with loose reins and seldom use the spurs.” Sandra Day O’Connor

351. “It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.” – Samuel Johnson

352. “It takes a great man to be a good listener.” – CALVIN COOLIDGE Twitter-Bird Small

353. “One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.”

354. “A wise man heeds all matters great or small.”

355. “Leaders co-create their reality not just by reflection but by asking the right questions. In the creative process, a question is a quest. Answers are dead ends. An answer is a blind alley through which no further movement of the mind is possible. When leaders live in questions they are able to navigate the complex problems of life and arrive at simple yet profound solutions. Complexities of the life arise because of our normal thinking process is not able to grasp our reality. So we need creativity in thinking. Creativity is a discontinuity in our thinking process. Creativity comes with sustained questioning of our old assumptions about reality.”

356. “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” – Stephen R. Covey

357. “Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.”

358. Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me. - Author: Veronica Roth

359. “It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” Warren Buffett

360. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” Bill Bradley

361. “Leadership should be based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation rather than intimidation” – Dwight D Eisenhower

362. “Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.” – Zig Ziglar

363. “It’s important to remember that trust is a matter of perception and something every business has to earn.” – Adam Rogers

364. “The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.”

365. ”Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities of which they were previously unaware.” – David Armistead

366. “People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe.”

367. “Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.”

368. “In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes.” – John Erskine, author

369. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” Mary Tyler Moore

370. “The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.”

371. “Trust, in its fullest sense, extends beyond simply having great confidence in a person, of faith that a task will be performed. Trust manifests itself when one becomes committed to the protection and care of someone else—he is entrusted to that person who holds his faith in trust.”

372. “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” – Stephen Covey

373. “Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.” – Albert Einstein

374. Leadership is doing what is right, not what is popular. - Lao Tzu

375. “The supreme quality of leadership is unquestionably integrity.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

376. “Make sure you’re not just waiting for someone else to fix things, or hoping that things will improve … Figure out what’s going on and make a plan to improve things.” – Kenneth W. Thomas, author

377. “Don’t give to get. Give to inspire others to give.”

378. “Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.”

379. “After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.”

380. “There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.”

381. “Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

382. “The good you do today will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.” – MOTHER TERESA Twitter-Bird Small

383. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” – Thomas Jefferson

384. He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. - Raymond Hull

385. “Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

386. “He didn’t know why he had become President of the Galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.”

387. “You can’t make people listen to you. You can’t make them execute. That might be a temporary solution for a simple task. But to implement real change, to drive people to accomplish something truly complex or difficult or dangerous—you can’t make people do those things. You have to lead them.”

388. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” Stephen Covey

389. “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

390. “Leaders must always operate with the understanding that they are part of something greater than themselves and their own personal interests.”

391. “Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.” Brian Tracy

392. Leadership is about integrity, honesty and accountability. All components of trust. - Author: Simon Sinek

393. “Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they’re doing it.” Marillyn Hewson

394. “Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” – Tom Peters

395. “It has been a dream of being able to grow to fullest development as a man and woman, unhampered by the barriers which had slowly been erected in the older civilizations, unrepressed by social orders which had developed for the benefit of classes rather than for the simple human being of any and every class.”

396. “Leadership is the relentless pursuit of truth and ceaseless creation of trust.” – Jack Welch

397. “He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.” —Lao Tzu

398. “Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out.” Ronald Reagan

399. “Well . . . I believe, when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties . . . they lead their country by a short route to chaos.”

400. “Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” – OSCAR WILDE

401. “If you can’t measure it, you can’t change it.”

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

403. “No one is going to make you a leader. Take the reins, create your own opportunity, and build the career that you deserve.” Devin Bramhall

404. Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it. - Author: Rick Warren

405. Followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope - Author: Tom Rath

406. “High-risk leadership beckons many, but few accept the call.”

407. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

408. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” – Ernest Hemingway

409. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” Pete Hoekstra

410. “Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it.”

411. “Martin Luther King gave the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, not the ‘I Have a Plan’ speech.”

412. “To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.”

413. “When you’re surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.” – HOWARD SCHULTZ Twitter-Bird Small

414. “The real test of leadership is to be as authentic at home as we pretend to be at work.” Jim Woods

415. “You may be deceived if you trust too much,but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.” Frank Crane

416. “Earn your leadership every day.” – Michael Jordan, former NBA basketball player

417. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”– President Ronald Reagan

418. “Trust starts with trustworthy leadership. It must be built into the corporate culture.” Barbara Brooks Kimmel

419. “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, writer, reporter and political commentator

420. “Great leaders check their ego at the door and empower others to excel” – DEBORAH GILLIS Twitter-Bird Small

421. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.” – Brian Tracy

422. “There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.”

423. “If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.” – Benjamin Hooks, former director of the NAACP

424. “Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.”

425. “Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others." – Anonymous

426. “By the standards of the rest of the world, we overtrust. So far it has worked very well for us.” – CHARLIE MUNGER Twitter-Bird Small

427. “As you go to work, your top responsibility should be to be trust.” Robert Eckert, CEO, Mattel

428. “The effective leader recognizes that they are more dependent on their people than they are on them. Walk softly.” Brian Tracy

429. Failure of leadership is often the result of too much caution or too little courage. – Thomas Sowell

430. “If you don’t have trust inside your company, then you can’t transfer it to your customers.” – Roger Staubach

431. “Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more.”

432. “Don’t avoid people who disagree with you – a dissenting view can push everyone else to do better work.” – Jake Knapp

433. The goal of leadership is not to be likable or loved but to be proven trustworthy and respected. - Author: Miles Anthony Smith

434. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face” – Eleanor Roosevelt

435. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” – OPRAH WINFREY Twitter-Bird Small

436. “Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you’ve changed your mind. Don’t persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.” Brian Tracy

437. “If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.”

438. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” General Dwight Eisenhower

439. “Be prepared and be honest.” – JOHN WOODEN Twitter-Bird Small

440. “Greatness starts with a clear vision of the future.”

441. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

442. “Taking risk is okay. Failure is okay. If you’re not pushing your limits, you’re not growing quite as much as you could.” – Stacey Cunningham

443. Great leaders build trust from their team because the leader is willing to put his/her people "first." Once the team believes that, they will put their leader, and the company, first as well. - Author: Beth Ramsay

444. “As a leader, you should always start with where people are before you try to take them where you want them to go.” Jim Rohn

445. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” –Ernest Hemingway

446. “Trust is built slowly. Trust is destroyed quickly. Trust can make complex things possible. The absence of trust can make simple things impossible. Trust powers relationships, businesses, nations. Trust is as precious as it is fragile.” The Stoic Emperor

447. “Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.”

448. “The glue that holds all relationships together–including the relationship between the leader and the led–is trust, and trust is based on integrity.” —Brian Tracy

449. “Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can show compassion for others. You are brave, Matthias. Already you have done great things for one so young. I am only a simple country-bred fieldmouse, but even I can see the courage and the leadership in you.”

450. “When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.”

451. “If you want to predict the future create it.”

452. “There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.” Klaus Balkenhol

453. “Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”

454. “The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action — an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign — even as the rest of the world wonders why you’re not marching in step with the status quo. In other words, real leaders are happy to zig while others zag. They understand that in an era of hyper-competition and non-stop disruption, the only way to stand out from the crowd is to stand for something special.” Bill Taylor

455. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

456. “If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.” Jim Rohn

457. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. Oprah Winfrey

458. “Great leaders are always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everyone can understand.” – Colin Powell

459. “Emotional intelligence is a way of recognizing, understanding, and choosing how we think, feel, and act. It shapes our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves. It defines how and what we learn; it allows us to set priorities; it determines the majority of our daily actions. Research suggests it is responsible for as much as 80 percent of the “success” in our lives.” Joshua Freedman

460. “I don’t trust words, I trust actions.” Unknown

461. “Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.” – Unknown

462. If we buy into our culture's lies about manhood and leadership, we will never place our trust in God alone. - Author: Bill Mills

463. “When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.”

464. A leader knows when it's time for change: when staying put means falling behind– Unknown

465. “I know of no case study in history that describes an organization that has been managed out of a crisis. Every single one of them was led.”

466. “It’s better to have a great team than a team of greats.”

467. An act of trust changes lives; it builds bridges between people and creates hope for what was once thought impossible. – Dalai Lama XIV

468. “Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.” – MARIAN ANDERSON Twitter-Bird Small

469. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

470. “Happy employees ensure happy customers. And happy customers ensure happy shareholders – in that order.”

471. “It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.”

472. “The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t.”

473. “Fight against something and you focus on the thing you hate. Fight for something and you focus on the thing you love.”

474. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place. Then stand firm.” – ABRAHAM LINCOLN

475. “It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.” – ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Twitter-Bird Small

476. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” – M.D. Arnold

477. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – President Abraham Lincoln

478. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” John Maxwell

479. “Leaders are innovative, entrepreneurial, and future-oriented. They focus on getting the job done.” Brian Tracy

480. “Power is of the individual mind, but the mind’s power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end, and only Might is Right.”

481. “It is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest, that holds human associations together.” —H. L. Mencken

482. “Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.”

483. “When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.” – Stephen R. Covey

484. “Your reputation and integrity are everything. Follow through on what you say you're going to do. Your credibility can only be built over time, and it is built from the history of your words and actions."

485. 'Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.''

486. “If you don’t have trust inside your company, then you can’t transfer it to your customers.” —Roger Staubach

487. “You are authentic when everything you say and everything you do you ACTUALLY believe.”

488. The good leader is a servant first and a leader second. - Ronald Reagan

489. “For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.” – BO BENNETT Twitter-Bird Small

490. “I wouldn’t ask anyone to do anything I wouldn’t do myself.” – Indra Nooyi

491. “Be sure you put your feet in the right place. Then stand firm.” – ABRAHAM LINCOLN Twitter-Bird Small

492. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” – President Theodore Roosevelt

493. “The best leaders have a high consideration factor. They really care about their people” Brian Tracy

494. “Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.” —Eric Sevareid

495. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold Glasow, humorist and author

496. “To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.” —George MacDonald

497. “Show respect for those in power, but don’t follow them blindly.”

498. “Only those who dare to fail greatly, achieve greatly.” – John F. Kennedy

499. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – GANDHI Twitter-Bird Small

500. “It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.” – English proverb

501. “Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.”

502. “Good leaders never set out to be a leader…they set out to make a difference" - Unknown

503. “Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.” Brian Tracy

504. “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, former U.S. Secretary of State

505. Without trust, at best you get compliance.” –Jesse Lyn Stoner, author of Full Steam Ahead

506. “The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system’s weaknesses irrelevant.”

507. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

508. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” – Napoleon Hill

509. True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect. - Author: Stephen Covey

510. “The ethical leader we are at home will matter more in the eternities than the false glow of platitudes attached to title.” Jim Woods

511. “Conviction, commitment, credibility: the three pillars of morally courageous leadership.” – GENERAL JOHN MICHEL Twitter-Bird Small

512. “The best leaders lead from within” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

513. “Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.” – Oscar Wilde, writer and poet

514. “All the perks, all the benefits and advantages you may get for the rank or position you hold, they aren’t meant for you. They are meant for the role you fill. And when you leave your role, which eventually you will, they will give the ceramic cup to the person who replaces you. Because you only ever deserved a Styrofoam cup.”

515. “Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences.” Brian Tracy

516. “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

517. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” Sam Walton

518. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch, former GE chairman and CEO

519. “You must trust and believe in people, or life becomes impossible.” —Anton Chekhov

520. “You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership.” – President Dwight D. Eisenhower

521. “Influential leaders know the importance of being approachable and relatable.”

522. “Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people.” – Stephen R. Covey

523. “The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own.”

524. “When you delegate work to a member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.” Steven Sinofsky

525. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

526. 'Preparedness is the key to success and victory.'' -

527. “Most of us, in ways that we are not entirely aware of, automatically associate leadership ability with imposing physical stature. We have a sense of what a leader is supposed to look like, and that stereotype is so powerful that when someone fits it, we simply become blind to other considerations.”

528. “Don’t be a pawn, when you’re meant to be the king.”

529. “Keep the commission D’Artagnan-the profession of arms suits you; you will be a brave and adventurous captain.”

530. “A chief! A chief!”

531. “The best leaders know that they are standing on the shoulders of others who have come before them.”

532. “Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it’s eight times as good as any other method. Its worst fault is that its leaders reflect their constituents— low level, but what can you expect?”

533. “The good you do today will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.” – MOTHER TERESA

534. “To be successful, you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish.” – Michael Jordan

535. “Great leaders don’t see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.”

536. “When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.” Stephen Covey

537. “When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.” – Patanjali

538. “Trust your team. Let others do their work so you can concentrate wholly on your own.” – Gene King

539. “Don’t be afraid to show your vulnerability. Be transparent with your team, even when the truth may be unpopular or inconvenient.” – Bill George

540. “Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” Bill Bradley

541. “Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

542. “Trust is like a vase, once it’s broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.” Walter Anderson

543. With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs. - Author: Sultan Bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

544. “A leader is best when people barely know he exists; when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.” Lao Tzu

545. I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government. - Author: Carly Fiorina

546. “Trust only movement. Life happens at thelevel of events, not of words. Trust movement.” Alfred Adler

547. “Be prepared and be honest.” – John Wooden

548. “Stress and anxiety at work have less to do with the work we do and more to do with weak management and leadership.”

549. “The slopes to treachery from the dizzy heights of revolutionary leadership are always so steep and slippery that leaders, however well intentioned, can never build their fences too high”

550. An honorable leader must demonstrate a willingness to reveal his or her 'inner self' to their team. It builds trust and trust is essential. It's also a sign of strength and authenticity, and people are attracted to those who are 'real' and authentic. - Author: Lee Ellis

551. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou

552. “Always tell the truth or the truth will tell on you.” – FRANK SONNENBERG Twitter-Bird Small

553. “Practice Golden Rule Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.” Brian Tracy

554. “You must trust and believe in people, or life becomes impossible.” – Anton Chekhov

555. “A man who doesn’t trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.”

556. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” Bill George

557. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

558. Leadership function requires vision, courage, integrity and humility all at once — Subroto Bagchi

559. “Real leaders demonstrate initiative, decisiveness, and flexibility.”

560. “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” – Gen. George S. Patton

561. “In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.” Warren Buffet

562. “For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.” – Bo Bennett

563. “Unless you go out of your comfort zone. Unless you challenge yourself, you cannot grow. Leadership is the art of growing by pushing yourself past your own physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual limits.”

564. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder

565. I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them. - Author: Gautam Gambhir

566. “If you always put a limit on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” Bruce Lee

567. “Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people.” – Stephen Covey

568. “We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” Peter Drucker

569. “A prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice.”

570. “A prince, therefore, ought always to take counsel.”

571. Political leadership involves working with complex relationships among individuals and groups to achieve common goals - Abraham Maslow

572. “When the Avro Arrow, the world’s top performing interceptor aircraft, was canceled by the Canadian government, the engineers came south to the United States and into the Space Task Group, providing much of the instant maturity and leadership needed for Mercury.”

573. “Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain, author

574. “Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.”

575. “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, former first lady of the United States

576. Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped. - Author: Frances Wright

577. Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person. - Author: Simon Sinek

578. “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.” Albert Einstein

579. “It takes two to do the trust tango–the one who risks (the trustor) and the one who is trustworthy (the trustee); each must play their role. —Charles H. Green, The Trusted Advisor

580. “Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.” Reed Markham

581. “The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader’s true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.”

582. “Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” – Booker T. Washington

583. “A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.” Jim Rohn

584. “Leaps of greatness require the combined problem-solving ability of people who trust each other.”

585. Being a person that others can trust is one of the most sought after qualities in the workplace today. So many leaders and their staff have shown in the recent global financial crisis a lack of trust and integrity amongst themselves and with their clients and other stakeholders. - Author: Nigel Cumberland

586. “Trust is the easiest thing in the world to loose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.” R. Williams

587. “You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.” – Sam Rayburn, former speaker of the House

588. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin

589. “When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.” —Blaine Lee

590. “I suspected that each of my teammates hoped as fervently as I that Hall had been careful to weed out clients of dubious ability, and would have the means to protect each of us from one another’s shortcomings.”

591. When a Promise of Leadership is neglected or unfulfilled, trust is broken, engagement erodes, and performance suffers. - Author: William A. Adams

592. “He who rejects change is the architect of decay.” – Harold Wilson

593. “The organisations are passing through a vale of tears, and for once, it is not entirely the fault of leadership. So where do we go from here?”

594. “The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.” Brian Tracy

595. “Leadership takes work. It takes time and energy. The effects are not always easily measured and they are not always immediate. Leadership is always a commitment to human beings.”

596. “The glue that holds all relationships together–including the relationship between the leader and the led–is trust, and trust is based on integrity.” Brian Tracy

597. “Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves. Positive leaders empower people to accomplish their goals.” – Unknown

598. “We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.” —Thomas Moore

599. “Not so, however, with the besieged. Animated by the words, and stimulated by the examples of their leaders, they had found their courage, and maintained their ancient reputation, with a zeal that did justice to the stern character of their commander.”

600. “Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t.”

601. “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”

602. “Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people.” – BARBARA BUSH Twitter-Bird Small

603. “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”

604. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” Leo Buscaglia

605. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

606. “Something deep in Ralph spoke for him.

607. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

608. The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things, but the one who gets people to do the greatest things. – Ronald Reagan

609. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” Arnold Glasow

610. “Trust has to be the highest value in your company, and if it’s not, something bad is going to happen to you.” – Marc Benioff

611. “Joe Starks was the name, yeah Joe Starks from in and through Georgy. Been workin’ for white folks all his life. Saved up some money – round three hundred dollars, yes indeed, right here in his pocket. Kept hearin’ ‘bout them buildin’ a new state down heah in Floridy and sort of wanted to come. But he was makin’ money where he was. But when he heard all about ‘em makin’ a town all outa colored folks, he knowed dat was de place he wanted to be. He had always wanted to be a big voice, but de white folks had all de sayso where he come from and everywhere else, exceptin’ de place dat colored folks was buildin’ theirselves. Dat was right too. De man dat built things oughta boss it. Let colored folks build thing too if dey wants to crow over somethin’. ”

612. “Leaders search very deep for their identity. A great identity yields great possibilities in life. A great identity gives greater action choices. A search for our true identity is a kind of talent search within our own selves. There are talents that are latent. They sleep within us as seeds of possibilities. When we discover and nurture these seeds they grow and flower. This flowering is a leader’s true vocation.”

613. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” —Warren Buffett

614. “Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.”

615. ″‘You, our friend, our intelligence, our invisible protector’, said he, ‘accept this commission; you have merited it more than any of us by your wisdom and your counsels...‘”

616. “Trust yourself, you will start to trust others.” Santosh Kalwar

617. “If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”

618. “Little questions can sometimes solve big problems.” – Sam Harrison

619. “Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”

620. “If people are aligned in a common strategic direction and trust each other’s motives, then all will ‘move faster’ – all saving cost and time to both parties and increases the chances of achieving end value goals. In a hostile takeover there is even greater risk, with target and acquiring firms often suspicious of each other’s intentions, and claiming the other party’s lack of trustworthiness.” Edward Marshall

621. “When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.” Craig Groeschel

622. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” – Brian Tracy

623. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom. - Author: Dee Hock

624. “Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” – Theodore Levitt

625. “Upon the king! Let us our lives, our souls, our

626. “A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.”

627. “Our mind is powerful. Think Bigger. Dream bigger. Act bigger – and you’ll live a much bigger version of your life!”

628. “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.”

629. “If I had asked people what they wanted they would have said faster horses.” – Henry Ford

630. Good teams are committed to the team mission and to each other personally. Good leaders inspire and build this commitment and trust. - Author: Lee Ellis

631. “Trust, but verify.” – Ronald Reagan

632. “Consequently, both political and business organisations are hunting down the leaders who have an aptitude to inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and achieve more.”

633. “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Jim Rohn, entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker

634. “The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?”

635. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft

636. “The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.” – George Orwell, author [Read Related Article: 5 Tips for Guiding Your Team Through a Rough Patch]

637. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch

638. “Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.” – Warren G. Bennis, founding chairman of the Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California

639. “The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.”

640. “Great leaders make people buy into the vision and are not burdened by it. To have a brilliant vision is one thing but to execute it is completely another thing.”

641. “The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.” – Gail Sheehy

642. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities of which they were previously unaware.” —David Armistead

643. “A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.” – Simon Sinek

644. “He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted.” – LAO TZU Twitter-Bird Small

645. “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” – STEPHEN R. COVEY Twitter-Bird Small

646. “You manage things; you lead people.” – Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

647. “Great teams have trust at the heart of their success. If you don’t trust each other, you’ll play safe. Trust makes it possible to aim higher. To leap further and to know someone has your back if you fall.” Adam Grant

648. “Dear Woman, when you are in position of power, it becomes your moral obligation to help rise other women around you. Do not become the oppressor because you were oppressed at some point. That’s worse than a man oppressing. - Pavithra Urs”

649. “I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.” – Robert E. Lee

650. The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust. People want to trust. They're hungry for it. But they're selective. They'll only give it to a motivator, a communicator, a teacher, a real person. Someone who in good times and bad always does the right thing. - Author: Jeffrey R. Immelt

651. “It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date.” – Roger von Oech

652. “Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

653. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. - John C. Maxwell

654. “Learning is not a one-time event or a periodic luxury. Great leaders in great companies recognize that the ability to constantly learn, innovate, and improve is vital to their success.” Amy Edmondson

655. “Authenticity and knowing who you are is fundamental to being an effective and long-standing leader.” – ANN FUDGE Twitter-Bird Small

656. 'The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.''

657. “Trust is like blood pressure. It’s silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.” —Frank Sonnenberg, author of Follow Your Conscience

658. “Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.” General Colin Powell

659. “Distrust that man who tells you to distrust; He takes the measure of his own small soul and thinks the world no larger.”

660. “I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.” – Harvey Firestone

661. “The only thing a genuine leader can give is an example; and the most effective example demands no words.” – John Wooden

662. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan

663. Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential. - Author: Warren G. Bennis

664. “Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

665. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple

666. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”

667. Trust is equal parts character and competence ... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other. - Author: Stephen Covey

668. “Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.” – Peter Diamandis

669. “Trust is built when someoneis vulnerable and not taken advantage of.” Bob Vanourek

670. I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted. - Author: Tony Dungy

671. “Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.”

672. “The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.”

673. Made in America. Heck, let's make everything in America. Let's make pride and trust and teamwork more than chalk on a Harvard blackboard. - Author: Chris Bent

674. “Good is the enemy of great.” – Jim Collins

675. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” Bill Gates

676. “The real test of leadership is to be as authentic at home as we pretend to be at work.” – Jim Woods

677. “Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.” – Seth Godin

678. “Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.” -Tom Freston

679. “Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.”

680. “The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.”

681. “Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.”

682. “I ought to be chief,” said Jack with simple arrogance, “because I’m chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp.”

683. “In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.”

684. “It takes two to do the trust tango–the one who risks (the trustor) and the one who is trustworthy (the trustee); each must play their role. – Charles H. Green

685. “Bad leaders care about who is right. Good leaders care about what is right.”

686. “No one knows everything. But together, we know a whole lot.”

687. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

688. “Self-trust is the first secret of success.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

689. “Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.”

690. Women feel a need for a certain level of prior training and experience that men do not necessarily demand in order to jump into a new role. There's a need for women to trust themselves more... - Author: Selena Rezvani

691. “A State for one man is no State at all.”

692. “When a leader of the Pack has missed his kill, he is called the Dead Wolf as long as he lives, which is not long, as a rule.”

693. “Did you see his body? No. Did anyone? No. Nothing could kill him. He made rabbits bigger than they’ve ever been—braver, more skillful, more cunning. I know we paid for it. Some gave their lives. It was worth it, to feel we were Efrafans. For the first time ever, rabbits didn’t go scurrying away. The elil feared us. And that was on account of Woundwort—him and no one but him. We weren’t good enough for the General. Depend upon it, he’s gone to start another warren somewhere else. But no Efrafan officer will ever forget him.”

694. “Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress; working hard for somthing we love is called passion.”

695. “If you want to be an effective leader, get comfortable fostering Fostered a culture of innovation, inclusion, collaboration and creativity.”

696. “It only takes one person to mobilize a community and inspire change. Even if you don’t feel like you have it in you, it’s in you. You have to believe in yourself. People will see your vision and passion and follow you.” Teyonah Parris

697. “Leadership requires five ingredients–brains, energy, determination, trust, and ethics. The key challenges today are in terms of the last two–trust and ethics.” – Fred Hilmer

698. “In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” – President Harry Truman

699. “He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted.” – Lao Tzu

700. “Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them." - Colin Powell

701. “Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it … Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.” David Ogilvy

702. “Allowing people to operate without having to explain themselves constantly turns out to be like the rule of agreement in improv. It enables rapid cognition.”

703. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” – NAPOLEON HILL Twitter-Bird Small

704. When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people. - Author: Eunice Parisi-Carew

705. “When consumers purchase a Toyota, they are not simply purchasing a car, truck or van. They are placing their trust in our company.” – Akio Toyoda

706. “The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.” – BRENDA BARNES Twitter-Bird Small

707. “The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.”

708. “The Four Leadership Motions are stated as one-line instructions for what to do right now: Orient Honestly. Value Outcomes. Leverage the Brains. Make Durable Decisions.”

709. “The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.” —Abraham Lincoln

710. “Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” Stephen Covey

711. “Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through service, integrity, passion, perseverance and equanimity.”

712. “Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.” Eleanor Roosevelt

713. “The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.” Brian Tracy

714. “Why can’t you harness Might so that it works for Right?… The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can’t neglect it.”

715. “When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.” –Stephen R. Covey

716. “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” – Lao Tzu

717. “I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all.”

718. “Do the right thing. Always.” – TED COINÉ

719. “Trust is built when someone is vulnerable and not taken advantage of” – Unknown

720. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader

721. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer

722. “Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.”

723. “Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration — of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.” Lance Secretan

724. “Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.” – Eric Sevareid

725. “Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.” Vince Lombardi

726. “I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.” – HARVEY FIRESTONE Twitter-Bird Small

727. “A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths.”

728. “Contrary to what most people believe, trust is not some soft, illusive quality that you either have or you don’t; rather, trust is a pragmatic, tangible, actionable asset that you can create.” – STEPHEN M.R. COVEY Twitter-Bird Small

729. “Yet, in reason, no man should possess him

730. “Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.” – WARREN BENNIS

731. “Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.” – Vince Lombardi

732. “Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people.” – BARBARA BUSH

733. “Great teams consist of individuals who have learned to trust each other. Over time, they have discovered each other’s strengths and weaknesses, enabling them to play as a coordinated whole.” Amy Edmondson

734. “A team is not a group of people that work together. A team is a group of people that trust each other.”

735. “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” Carl Jung

736. “The best thing you can do to help others take responsibility is to authentically practice the behaviors that you want others to practice.” – DR. MICHELLE REINA

737. America has receded from the world. Today our friends and allies don't trust us. And our enemies don't fear us. I think we should get back, number one, to American leadership in the world. - Author: Ted Cruz

738. “Be a good example in everything you do so that others may follow in your footsteps.” - Anonymous

739. “Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” – THEODORE ROOSEVELT Twitter-Bird Small

740. “Your words and deeds must match if you expect employees to trust in your leadership.” – KEVIN KRUSE Twitter-Bird Small

741. “A small team, committed to a cause bigger than themselves, can achieve absolutely anything.”

742. “Trust isn’t about liking your team. It’s about being able to count on your team.” Adam Grant

743. “Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.” – Edward Felten

744. “Stay connected to feel empathy, compassion, and understanding for yourself and others.” Vanessa Tucker

745. “Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” Tom Peters

746. “Earn your leadership every day.” – Michael Jordan

747. “While a great leader is typically an exceptional manager, A TOP-NOTCH MANAGER MAY NOT NECESSARILY POSSESS THE QUALITIES OF AN OUTSTANDING LEADER.”

748. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, poet and philosopher

749. “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” W. Clement Stone

750. “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” Stephen Covey

751. “It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

752. “The responsibility for finding and fixing problems should be assigned to every employee, from the most senior manager to the lowliest person on the production line.”