Quotes about Empowering Others

I learned this early on in the variety store business: you've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

I can't have information I know would be of use to someone and not share it.

Winning is not always about shining the brightest. Sometimes it's about sharing the light with someone who has been waiting in the shadows all along.

But she also said that by staying strong, you can become the light for those who need you most.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Nobody does anything if he can get anybody else to do it

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.

It's been amazing to touch people's lives.

It is impossible to need excuses when the focus of your life shifts from 'What's in it for me?' to 'How can I serve?'

My real mantra for my life is "empower others".

We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.

The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.

My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.

Not a fighter, be a light to defeat the darkness.

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader; a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

If you step on other people's necks to get rich, or barter your personal honor, then it is others who pay for your success and you can hardly call it your own. If, however, you build something that is of benefit to other people, give them an opportunity to rise with you on your upward climb, you make a contribution.

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.

A person in business always talks about the key to success, but he who is truly successful unlocks the door for own and others right progress.