Leader Quotes - Page 100

Lions cannot afford to hunt mice because they literally will starve to death, even if they catch them. Lions and all large carnivores have to hunt game large enough to justify the investment, so they have to hunt antelope and zebra. Why is this important? Because most senior executives are really big on chipmunks.

If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader.

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

To the leaders of the cinema still to come, I can offer only a few words drawn from my modest experience. You must ceaselessly formulate and sharpen your critical views, both of others and of yourselves.

Leaders think differently about themselves, and this distinguishes them from followers.

We were not designed to be dominated.

Each of us was created to rule, govern, control, master, manage, and lead our environments. You are in essence a leader, no matter who you are.

The shortest distance to leadership is service.

No settlement with the majority community is possible, as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the past, some strange contradictions between Mossadeq's declared ends and his actions. Officially he defended nationalist anti-colonialism and was the most intransigent patriot who declared that no concessions or advantages should be granted to foreign powers. He described his doctrine as a "negative balance" and in fact his greatest failing was that he was negative.

If a leader demonstrates that his purpose is noble, that the work will enable people to connect with something large - more permanent than their material existence - people will give the best of themselves to the enterprise

A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.

I do not believe that there is any secret or single formula for success, but there are common threads of thought and action that characterize the successful people that I have been fortunate enough to know and observe. I do know, from my own experience, that our chance of succeeding is much greater when we organize and take charge of our lives. When we are willing to make decisions, we aggressively pursue those things in life that are important to us.

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. These are such as are not accessible to the ordinary person, but are regarded as of divine origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them the individual concerned is treated as a 'leader.

The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader.

Your success will shine as a light of hope and inspire numbers you cannot total.

One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It's the gift of inconvenience.

You just do it one step at a time.

We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host.

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

Never forget, organizational values start and end with you, the leader. Whether your example is good or bad, expect most employees to follow your lead.