Leadership Quotes
What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star.
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief
So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.
Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.
I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.
Most of us want to live in harmony and peace and be good to others. Right now, however, the world is in a very turbulent time, and our leadership has gone crazy.
Those with visible responsibility for leadership are nearly always too visible to take responsibility for change.
True leadership means to receive power from God and use it under God's rule to serve people in God's way.
The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.
... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.
To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.
What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.
Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor.
If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves."
We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything.
If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.
Who influenced you? When did they influence you? How have they influenced you? What have you done with their influence?
One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.
Leadership starts with understanding responsibility, not ability. Leadership is a Stewardship, not a show.
Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.
Delegation is the passing on of actions, actions, not the passing on of responsibility.
Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.
Leadership is inherent in our nature and is fundamental to our origins, our human makeup -and our destiny.
Leadership is an active, living process. It is rooted in character, forged by experience, and communicated by example.
As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.
I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.
There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve.
Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.
Most of us are not leaders today because, in our hearts we don't believe that is who we are.
I believe the team of Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard is the best leadership team for the Liberal Party and therefore part of the best leadership team of the Coalition for the country.