leadership Quotes

"When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea."

"If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands."

"It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may."

"When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea."

"I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."

"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'"

"If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea."

"If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean."

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

"If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine."