Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.

A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.

The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy, but who can energize those whom they lead.

A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.

I'm able to bring business expertise but, more importantly, operating experience. The people here at Google are young. Every day there are lots of new challenges. I keep things focused. The speech I give everyday is: "This is what we do. Is what you are doing consistent with that, and does it change the world?"

The most important role of managers is to create environment in which people are passionately dedicated to winning in marketplace.

It's all about finding and hiring people smarter than you. Getting them to join your business. And giving them good work. Then getting out of their way. And trusting them. You have to get out of the way so YOU can focus on the bigger vision. That's important. And here's the main thing....you must make them see their work as a MISSION.

My role is to coach, encourage, inspire, motivate, and help people.

Be a people builder. Look for opportunities to encourage others to bring out the best in them.

As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated.

You can't force your will on people. If you want them to act differently, you need to inspire them to change themselves

Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

Every argument that Margaret Thatcher ever made internationally didn't have a great deal to do with her contempt for Communism - she never really got into that. What she talked about was giving freedom to tens of millions of people in Central and Eastern Europe. She was an inspirational leader when it came to discussing her belief in freedom. More visceral and moral.

Hire people inspired to achieve something big over people who demand something big before they feel inspired.

If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

I would like to inspire a lot of people to be active and give back.

Give (your people) the youth a proper environment. Motivate them. Extend them the support they need. Each one of them has infinite source of energy. They will deliver.

The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

People are hungry for God. What [a] terrible meeting [it] would be with our neighbour if we give them only ourselves.

People will walk through fire for a leader that's true and human.

People won't give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.

Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.