Leadership & Management: Servant Leadership Quotes

"It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair"

Nile Rodgers, Musician

"You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone"

Robert Hunter, Musician

"You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you"

Merle Shain, Author

"If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee"

George Nethercutt, Politician

"Yes, I'm your governor now. I'll take care of you"

Sonny Perdue, Politician

"What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people"

Thad Cochran, Politician

"Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance"

J. Donald Walters, Author

"If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased"

Lee Scott, Businessman

"HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help or need it. And that reputation is earned"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"There is nothing in the company that is either above or below me, as far as I'm concerned"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well"

Joe Murray, Artist

"I will commit myself to making this state an even greater place to live, work and raise a family. I intend to reach out from border to border to hear first-hand from our citizens about their thoughts, concerns and ideas for our state"

Dave Heineman, Politician

"I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I wins"

Mariska Hargitay, Actress

"I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do"

Sonny Perdue, Politician

"Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public"

Steven Squyres, Scientist

"My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service"

Sonny Perdue, Politician

"I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America"

Max Baucus, Politician

"A conductor should guide rather than command"

Riccardo Muti, Celebrity

"I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man, and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity"

Louis Farrakhan, Activist

"It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op"

William Baldwin, Actor

"I've decided to lead in a way that takes people with me. It's the approach that I think will stand not only our party but also our state in good stead"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

"You know, as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged"

Kurt Masur, Musician

"I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government"

Lloyd Bentsen, Politician

"I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise"

Ezra Cornell, Businessman

"What drives people to public service is a sense of possibility. If you haven't sensed that possibility, you don't get started in the same way, you don't feel you can have an impact"

Henry Hampton, Activist

"We have to humble ourselves, and the way you do that is by serving other people"

Tim Tebow, Athlete

"At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First, I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point"

Godfried Danneels, Clergyman

"We don't have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in!"

Jay Chiat, Businessman

"A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public"

Franklin Knight Lane, Politician

"I appreciate the opportunity to continue to serve the people of our state"

David Minge, Politician

"The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator"

Frances Perkins, Politician

"I have never believed in the Wizard of Oz theory of consulting, that I am all-knowing and all-seeing, and that everyone around me is kind of a backbencher"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"We work for the families back home, we do not work for the lobbyists that prowl the halls of the capital building, do not forget who we work for"

Brian Schweitzer, Politician

"Man, if I made one million dollars, I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games"

Duke Snider, Athlete

"For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually, and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

"There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs"

Anne Northup, Politician

"The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity, or solidarity; it is service"

Arthur Hugh Clough, Poet

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