Erich Fromm Quotes

I like to motivate and inspire people.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

Sometimes you have to create a vision, a path for a vision. It may not be apparent, and you may have to forge it yourself. And that will be the way to move your life forward.

You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.

When you have a clear vision of your goal, it's easier to take the first step toward it.

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

Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.

Many people have the right aim in life, they just never get around to pulling the trigger. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps -- we must step up the stairs.

The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.

I use my experience, my failures, my successes, and help people stay focused.

And now we get down to two magic words that tell us how to accomplish just about anything we want to accomplish, two powerful words that can change any situation, two dynamic words that all too few people use. And what are these two amazing words? Do it!

Work hard. Think big. Listen well.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly

Leadership is about setting a direction. It's about creating a vision, empowering and inspiring people to want to achieve the vision, and enabling them to do so with energy and speed through an effective strategy. In its most basic sense, leadership is about mobilizing a group of people to jump into a better future.

If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

I want to inspire people.

There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.

Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.