The Top 30 Leadership Quotes From The Catalyst Labs

Today I had the opportunity to represent The Rocket Company at the Catalyst Conference Labs.  For special free offer 5 Things That Kill A Sermon from The Rocket Company and to read all the leadership quotes from these great leaders, click here.

For your convenience however, I am provided you the abbreviated 30 Top Leadership Quotes I heard today.  These will make you a better leader.

Dr. Henry Cloud

1. The worst thing we can die with, ever, is potential.
2. The brain – if you traumatize it, put it under threat, it shuts down thinking and creativity and turns up the juice on reacting.
3. Teams that win the Super Bowl do three things – Lowest Turnovers, Lowest Penalties, and Special Teams.
4. The #1 factor in whether you can accomplish a goal or not is the belief that you can.

Jeff Henderson – What Non-Profits Could Learn From For-Profits

1. The solutions the non-profits are trying to provide aren’t keeping pace with the problems they’re trying to survive.
2. For-Profits think, “We’ve got to find that finest talent available, pay them what they’re worth, and put them into their daily solutions. “  Apply the Who to the What.
3. Non-Profits find the very best Who and put them on their Boards because they don’t want to pay them.
4. When did we get to the point that we think excellence is offensive to God.
5. If we’re not careful we spiritualize laziness.
6. I hire talented, creative, passionate learners who have a history of turning intention into reality.
7. I love everybody but I don’t have to hire everybody.
8. I have to look at our staff and ask the hard question – Would I hire them again?
9. Asking for money is better over coffee than over a computer.
10. Fundraising requires looking someone eye-to-eye and say, “Will you help me” and don’t say another thing.  Just listen to them.

Lysa TerKeurst – RemarkABLE: The Three Decisions That Will Make Or Break Momentum In Your Organization

1. As a leader there are times everyone is looking at you and you don’t have the answers.
2. We can learn more from the epic failures of momentum rather than the great successes.
3. Everyone offers exactly the same thing – Value.

Bryan Loritts – Leadership In An Age Of Entitlement

1. I was growing with a holy frustration because the crowds I was speaking to were all white or all black and that’s not the gospel.
2. We are not a multi-ethnic church first.  We are a Jesus-first church.
3. I avoid leadership conferences like the plague.  I’d come to a leadership conference to try to get a quick fix to make myself great.
4. My struggle with social media is I become the star of my own reality show.
5. It’s almost impossible to offend a humble person.
6. I am not a sociologist.  I am not a leadership guru.  I am a preacher of The Word of God.
7. In the South we have hidden behind relational cowardice.  Timidity is not humility.  It is actually the other side of pride.
8. Humility = harmony.  When you has a leader model humility, one of the outgrowths of that is harmony.
9. Pride is stealing what rightfully belongs to God and applying to myself.  Pride is taking what is rightfully God’s.
10. Leader, you are the keeper of your culture.
11. One of the things I love about the African-American culture is honoring the man of God.
12. Jesus did not coerce people into the Kingdom.  He served people into the Kingdom.
13. Develop friendships and relationships with people who seemingly bring nothing to the table.  So many relationships are transactional.  What you will find is counter-intuitive.  They bring more to the table than you will know.

More coming from this event in the upcoming days.