Frances Hesselbein

At a young age, I learned from my grandmother that I should respect all people. Her lessons were defining moments in my…

— Frances Hesselbein

There's something exhilarating about being in the mountains and talking about management and the future with Peter Drucker.

— Frances Hesselbein

You should be a living practicing example of what you are preaching.

— Frances Hesselbein

At one time, there was a stereotype that your Girl Scout leader was the mother of a Brownie, but increasingly, we are…

— Frances Hesselbein

Listening is an art.

— Frances Hesselbein

Tears belong within the family.

— Frances Hesselbein

Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.

— Frances Hesselbein

If you are building a corporate culture of greatness, you have to define culture on your own terms and with the people…

— Frances Hesselbein

If you grow up in Germantown, Pennsylvania, as I did, 5:30 means 5:30.

— Frances Hesselbein

With a growing number of one-parent families in the country, the Girl Scout troop can be an indispensable and powerful positive factor.

— Frances Hesselbein

Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

— Frances Hesselbein

I believe that tears should be very private, and no matter what issue or what situation, we should have a very dignified…

— Frances Hesselbein

Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the organization is transformed; the culture reflects the realities…

— Frances Hesselbein

It's not hard work that wears you out, but the repression of your true personality, and I've found a way of working…

— Frances Hesselbein

The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values,…

— Frances Hesselbein

Selling cookies is usually a girl's first exposure to the world of business. She learns how to meet the public, talk about…

— Frances Hesselbein

It is not business, it is not government - it is the social sector that may yet save the society.

— Frances Hesselbein

Age is irrelevant.

— Frances Hesselbein

When I choose what I do, I ask, 'Does it make a difference?'

— Frances Hesselbein

Good leaders make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

— Frances Hesselbein

Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare.

— Frances Hesselbein

Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.

— Frances Hesselbein

An exceptional career is one that provides an opportunity to serve. It is a satisfying career in which you can't wait to…

— Frances Hesselbein

We do not know what lies ahead, yet whatever the challenge, leaders will rise, finding the heart, the language, the caring that…

— Frances Hesselbein

I never had any question about the direction we were going in at the Girl Scouts. We shared our mission and research…

— Frances Hesselbein