Leader Quotes - Page 110

Listen more than you talk.

What we need is new leadership that takes conservative principles and applies them so that people can rise up.

Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.

Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.'

We've got to establish a Socialist economic structure that will limit private profit-oriented businesses. Whether the transition is peaceful depends on the way our present governmental leaders react. We must commit our lives to this transition ...... We should be very proud of our new breed of soldier. It's not organized but it's mutiny, and they have every right.

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

Leadership isn’t the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It’s a process ordinary people use when they’re bringing forth the best from themselves and others. Liberate the leader in everyone, and extraordinary things happen.

Challenge is the opportunity for greatness. People do their best when there is an opportunity to change how things currently stand. Maintaining the status quo facilitates mediocrity. Those who embrace this practice do not wish to rest on their laurels. They motivate others to exceed their limits and look for innovative ways to improve the organization.

It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.

A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.

True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience.

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.

We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

The business of church is ultimately people. You're trying to heal people, grow people, teach people, and mend people. And when leaders spend all of their time helping and growing other people, they ignore their own growth.

The principal problem I had during the five years I ran the Caisse - and I bet you that it will be the same problem for my successor - is the retention, recruitment and training of competent personnel.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

Why are we mute? Where are our leaders, our legislators? Where is the church?

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

The leader must be an actor.

To fix the business, to bring it back to health, you must assimilate enough of the disruptive innovation to modernize the operating model without jettisoning your business model. This typically requires new leaders and definitely requires new (if temporary) rules. The CEO is the only person who can dictate the correct terms in a timely manner and maintain the enterprise's commitment to those terms for the duration of the rehabilitation effort.