There are many professional skills and traits that make you successful in your career. Learning how to communicate in the workplace and build good relationships are key. We gathered 50 quotes about leadership from noteworthy leaders, helping us define what separates good leaders from great ones. Which is your favorite?
Quotes on positive associations to inspire you to surround yourself with the best teamwork collaboration .
Inspiring quotes about leadership and positive associations
1. “An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.” — Thomas Jefferson
2. “It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.” — Noam Chomsky
3. “In 2009, UnitedHealth, a leading insurance company, paid $350 million to settle lawsuits brought by the American Medical Association and other physician groups for shortchanging consumers and physicians for medical services outside its preferred network.” — Bernie Sanders
4. “From my standpoint, I would make it very difficult on the NBA to even have any association with college basketball. I think it’s ludicrous the way they take kids away that are certainly not prepared to play.” — Bobby Knight
5. “It may be that by watching everywhere we go, by watching everything we do, by analyzing every word we say, by waiting and passing judgment over every association we make and every person we love, that we could uncover a terrorist plot, or we could discover more criminals. But is that the kind of society we want to live in?” — Edward Snowden
6. “All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.” — Lysander Spooner
7. “I swear to God, I don’t remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.” — Jennifer Lopez
8. “A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.” — Clayton M. Christensen
9. “I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.” — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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10. “I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.” — Demetri Martin
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11. “Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.” — Franz Kafka
12. “In the 45 years I’ve worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don’t even have a hunting license.” — Don Rickles
13. “A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.” — Will Rogers
14. “Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn’t exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.” — P. J. O’Rourke
15. “I don’t understand the NBA in that, each time they bring in a one-and-done kid, they have to release a veteran player on a roster. I don’t understand why their players association condones that.” — Bobby Knight
16. “The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.” — Taufik Hidayat
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17. “I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book – the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as they surely will be, it will be like being in bed with a very well-made robot rather than a warm, soft, human being whom you love.” — Anne Fadiman
18. “If we don’t get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It’s time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.” — Harvey Weinstein
19. “If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.” — Jack Abramoff
20. “I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012.” — Rainey Qualley
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21. “I was always interested in working with people with disabilities, and in high school I worked with people who had Down Syndrome. That was for an agency called AHRC, Association for the Help of Retarded Children. Then I went to college, and throughout college I volunteered for AHRC.” — Meredith Eaton
22. “Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.” — Taufik Hidayat
23. “Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.” — William Merritt Chase
24. “To have the National Rifle Association rule United States of America is pathetic.” — Harvey Weinstein
25. “Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.” — Joseph Priestley
26. “While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we’d go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.” — Irwin M. Jacobs
27. “Supramolecular chemistry is the chemistry of the intermolecular bond, covering the structures and functions of the entities formed by association of two or more chemical species.” — Jean-Marie Lehn
28. “Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.” Mark Ambrose
29. “You become like the five people you spend the most time with. Choose carefully.” Jim Rohn
30. “You need to associate with people that inspire you, people that challenge you to rise higher, people that make you better. Don’t waste your valuable time with people that are not adding to your growth. Your destiny is too important.” Joel Osteen
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31. “As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.” — Robert Darnton
32. “Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.” — Ferdinand de Saussure
33. “The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.” — Peter R. Grant
34. “Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher.” — Daniel J. Evans
35. “The key factor is whether the agent is a member of the Association of Authors’ Representatives, which screens its members and requires them to uphold a Canon of Ethics.” — Richard Curtis
36. “I’m a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it’s spontaneous, I go into character.” — Michael Richards
37. “There are these girls who live in Maryland: they’re the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of America. They’ve sent me videotapes of themselves just eating and talking about Hanson, and a loaf of bread that was really moldy by the time it got here.” — Patrick Fugit
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38. “Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.” — Aberjhani
39. “It was difficult being a neutral broadcaster – in the people’s eyes – because of my association with the Celtics.” — Tom Heinsohn
40. “I’d say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact that I had ever had any association with the Paul Green School of Rock Music because it was like this bruise. It was such a sore subject.” — Madi Diaz