Mark Miller Quotes

The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.

When you see recurring problems, the methods you've used successfully in the past have to be reevaluated.

Leaders are dealers in hope.

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

Believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written-it is written by leaders.

The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.

You need to think of your quest for wisdom as a hunger that will never be satiated. The mere thought that you've arrived will spawn pride and arrogance.

The best leaders want to leverage all the capabilities of the people in their organization.

Contrary to conventional leadership in which the leader's focus is on himself and what he can accomplish and achieve. Rather, the focus is on those being served. Servant leaders do many of the same things other leaders do - cast vision, build teams, allocate resources, and so on. The big difference is their orientation and their motivation; these make all the difference in the world. They possess an others-first mindset. The servant leader constantly works to help others win.

If you feel the need to make everyone happy, you should be a wedding planner not a leader.

You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.

When you don't have time to do your job, that's a good indication you're playing the wrong game.

When faced with a challenging or difficult situation, the best leaders most often respond with courage; less mature leaders, or nonleaders often choose another path-a path with less risk, less conflict, and less personal discomfort.

When leaders lead well, not everyone is going to be happy.

You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you've closed for the day and flips the board.

Many of our leadership practices have gone from being tried and true to being tired and tarnished.

Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.

When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.

To see your-self you must first be yourself, to be your-self you must first know yourself, and to know your-self you must first love your-self more than anything in the world.-Mark Miller