10 powerful quotes on

making your own way

A great leader knows how to translate vision into
reality, even when one person’s vision seems like a
dream. Here are 10 powerful quotes on striking your
own path:

1. "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a

follower."
-Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder
2. "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead
where there is no path and leave a trail."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. "The true mark of a leader is the willingness to
stick with a bold course of action — an
unconventional business strategy, a unique
product-development roadmap, a controversial
marketing campaign — even as the rest of the world
wonders why you're not marching in step with the
status quo. In other words, real leaders are happy
to zig while others zag. They understand that in an
era of hyper-competition and non-stop disruption,
the only way to stand out from the crowd is to
stand for something special."
-Bill Taylor, from the article "Do You Pass the
Leadership Test?"
4. "The very essence of leadership is that you have to
have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."
-Theodore M. Hesburgh
5. "You gain strength, courage and confidence by
every experience in which you really stop to look
 fear in the face. You must do the thing you think
you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
6. "In matters of style, swim with the current; in
matters of principle, stand like a rock."
-Thomas Jefferson
7. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it
is the only thing that ever has."
-Margeret Mead
8. "A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus
but a molder of consensus."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
9. "It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent, but the one most
responsive to change."
-Charles Darwin
10. "Leaders grasp nettles."
-David Ogilvy