Celebrate success Quotes by Douglas Conant

You must bring great resolve to your work. It's not all a bed of roses.

— Douglas Conant

I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard…

— Douglas Conant

You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly tough-minded about…

— Douglas Conant

I strongly believe that you can't win in the marketplace unless you win first in the workplace. If you don't have a winning culture…

— Douglas Conant

All of us introverts aspire to be more outgoing, but it's not in our nature. When I was nearly 50, I discovered that the…

— Douglas Conant

People lead complicated lives and aren't hanging on your every word or the company mission statement. You have to become a broken record of…

— Douglas Conant

You have the opportunity to make a tremendous impact on the lives of the people with whom you work and live. Make the most…

— Douglas Conant

If you're a wounded company, the other companies that have been around for a hundred years will smell it, and they will take advantage…

— Douglas Conant

Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly.…

— Douglas Conant

Too many leaders are so caught up in the momentum of work that they lose sight of the opportunity to connect with people. I…

— Douglas Conant

Courage means feeling all those hard human emotions - all that uncertainty and anxiety - and getting the job done anyway.

— Douglas Conant

Most people think of leaders as being these outgoing, very visible, and charismatic people, which I find to be a very narrow perception. The…

— Douglas Conant