Top 35 Chris Brady Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “No guts, no story.”

— Chris Brady

2. “Leadership is the influence of others in a productive, vision-driven direction and is done through the example, conviction, and character of the leader.”

— Chris Brady

3. “Leaders lead for the joy of creating something bigger than themselves.”

— Chris Brady

4. “Mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.”

— Chris Brady

5. “Abraham Lincoln said, “Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing.”

— Chris Brady

6. “Life should be about purpose and meaning and cause and fulfilling our personal, God-given destinies.”

— Chris Brady

7. “Cynicism is what happens when skepticism is given too much latitude.”

— Chris Brady

8. “To think that the wise are not capable of folly is not wise.”

— Chris Brady

9. “Being a leader is a study in managed frustration.”

— Chris Brady

10. “Leadership is about doing the right things; management is about doing those things in the right way.”

— Chris Brady

11. “Leadership is influence – nothing more, nothing less.”

— Chris Brady

12. “Remember that if what you’re fighting for matters, the obstacles don’t.”

— Chris Brady

13. “Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year’s experience repeated thirty times.”

— Chris Brady

14. “Happiness is the by-product of doing the right things in life. And the “right things” always involve serving and loving and caring and contributing to others.”

— Chris Brady

15. “Nothing of significance was ever achieved without negative input from other people.”

— Chris Brady

16. “To succeed without meaning is not to succeed at all.”

— Chris Brady

17. “Leadership begins and ends with hunger. The hunger of an individual to risk his or her own personal comfort and affluence and attack the status quo is not only the initiation of leadership but also its sustaining force.”

— Chris Brady

18. “Our failures should not define us, but rather they should refine us.”

— Chris Brady

19. “Our greatest fear should not be that we won’t succeed, but rather that we will succeed at something that doesn’t matter.”

— Chris Brady

20. “What separates a leader from the rest is not only his ability to see what needs to be done but his unhesitating execution of it, even while others watch or deliberate.”

— Chris Brady

21. “Orrin Woodward relates this principle to people who claim to have thirty years of work experience, when actually in many cases, they merely have one year of experience thirty times over.”

— Chris Brady

22. “Hunger, it should be noted, is different from ambition. Where ambition is largely about self-aggrandizement, hunger is more about service and significance.”

— Chris Brady

23. “A true leader makes a decision and then works to make the decision right.”

— Chris Brady

24. “Certainly, experience is a large ingredient, although unexamined experience provides no advancement. Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year’s experience repeated thirty times.”

— Chris Brady

25. “What others may perceive as a gamble, leaders understand to be merely a calculated risk. In the face of superior odds, a leader must have the courage to innovate.”

— Chris Brady

26. “As a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand, so every mind divided among different studies is confused and weakened.”

— Chris Brady

27. “It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.”7.”

— Chris Brady

28. “You are in command. Your job is so challenging, so complex, so never-ending that most people could never come close to understanding the load you carry. You are thrust into impossible situations with little time and usually even less information upon which to make a decision.”

— Chris Brady

29. “What really needs to be learned from other successful leaders is their thought processes, their reasons, their methods of emotional control, their strategies, their abilities in dealing with other people, their subtle touches.”

— Chris Brady

30. “We should strive to matter as much as we possibly can and guard ourselves against the inevitable temptations that would cheapen our accomplishments.”

— Chris Brady

31. “The less talented we are, the more focused we must be.”

— Chris Brady

32. “It’s the men, and the leadership they follow, who make all the difference.”

— Chris Brady

33. “Great coaches are necessary to help you think through whether you should think what you think you should think.”

— Chris Brady

34. “Wise leaders court hunger like a muse, and they summon her continuously. Complacency, arrogance, malevolence, apathy, and comfort can easily chase her away.”

— Chris Brady

35. “Time, used correctly, is among your most potent assets.”

— Chris Brady

36. “Success is the product of many components, of which one of the most prominent is focus.”

— Chris Brady