Peter Schmeichel Quotes

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

Vision without execution is hallucination.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.

I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

The most challenging part of being CEO is communicating to 200,000 people what you want done.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

Effective management always means asking the right question.

In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.