Leader Quotes - Page 103

One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality.

Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

I have no patience with people who want to tell me what's wrong. I only want to hear from the person who first tells me the solution and then fills me in on the problem. I don't want to hear that your basement is flooded. I want to hear that you've found the number to the cleanup company. Then tell me why you're calling them.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Our leaders are stupid. Our politicians are stupid.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

If your program has a great leader, you'll get great things. If you don't have a great leader and people aren't on the same page, you have a lot of different people doing a lot of different things. That's where trouble starts.

The leader is the person who brings a little magic to the moment.

Going to the Olympics as a Maasai I want to make them proud because, after the warm welcome they gave me when I went back and being their leader, I want to also be the warrior in the Olympics. That will be something good because that will be the first Olympic gold medal for the Maasai.

The single greatest demotivator of a team is having members who are not carrying their load.

Your team has entrusted a portion of their life to you, and it's your job to help them grow, personally and professionally.

If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.

If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

As it goes with leaders, so it goes with the whole organization.

We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets.

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.