Leadership Quotes

Replace dabbling with laser-beamfocus on something important.

The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke

You can actually herd cats. They can't be forced, of course. But if they sense something they want, if there enticed by something good, they'll follow, even in herds.

You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it.

Moral action – humble and honest – is the tribute that power must at some point pay to reason.

He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.

What most new entrepreneurs don’t realize is that before you can lead a business, or a family, or a ministry, or even just another person, you have to be the leader of yourself, first.

In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.

He was rebuilt, reconstituted by vengeance dressed up as high purpose.

If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

Perhaps the most important factor of leadership is simply taking advantage of the chance to lead.

Inside that Colonel, there's a private that needs to be cuddled and held just like the rest of us." Hawkeye

A $10, 000 investment in Dell at its 1988 initial public offering would have yielded a fortune of ~$6 million at the stock’s peak.

Seek a man that doesn't ask you to prove your love. Seek a man that will prove God's love.

Action is the bridge between thought and reality.

A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work.

Listen with the will to learn.

anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody

A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics.

All the progress in science can’t be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses—to smell trouble or just something fishy.

Experience and wisdom are more tangible than materialism.

With every step you take ask yourself, what do I really want?

Weak leadership will always hide behind ambiguity and rhetoric.

An organization can only grow and set an exemplary model for development with the help of right talent pool.

If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear.

Rapport is the link between meeting and communicating.

Jefferson determined the lodestar that lay hidden in the motivations of others

Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.

Failure is an open invitation to improve and engage your frustrations with a refined energy of triumphant effort.

There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.

Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one.

Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president.

Nobody thought the direct business model would work. But work it did, and spectacularly. Until it didn’t. And therein lies the tale.

If you fall into a pit, you need a ladder, not a hoe. You must climb up and not dig up. Leaders discover the right way out of limitations.

We spend most of the time justifying the situation and not finding the real problem thus leaving minimal chance of solutions.

One thing we entirely forget when making decisions is the fact that the results concern and throw back to the decision maker not the one it seeks to please.

A leader who sows confidence will reap excellency and legacy. A leader who sows fear will reap stagnancy or complacency.

Engaging solely to validate your opinion takes away from the character building process.

A goal shouldn't be limited to a title.

There is no law against delaying action to weigh it in thought.

Respect is not an obligation nor a favour, it takes a bigger person to give or show some whether it is returned or not.

John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.

John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.

Leaders don't walk in front, nor do they walk behind. They walk on completely different paths on the journey of intuition. The road that has never been taken. And so they lead.

When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.

Leaders do not play a "what if game". They believe it will be and work it to be! Success is scarce because fear is common.

The only relevance worth to pursue, is living your passion through your interests.

Leaders' major question is "why". If they lose, they ask "why". If they win, they ask "why". Their "whys" weave their wonders.