Leader Quotes - Page 112

Great leaders focus on equipping their team. It is unfair to expect what you did not equip.

Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.

You see, Mr. President - real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls.

Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'

If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.

You have to learn to be a follower before you become a leader.

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.

Our greatest individual challenge in life is self-discipline. The self-discipline of a healthy diet, daily exercise, controlling our thoughts, selflessly serving others, and living a life of integrity.

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

There's a lot of false prophets around and that's the trouble. People say they think they know what's right and other people get people to follow them because they have a certain type of charisma, and there's always people willing to take over. People want a leader. And there will be more and more of them.

Great obstacles make great leaders.

Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.

Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal.

Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.

To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.

I was elected by the Democrats to be chair of the Veterans Committee, which I'm very proud of. And now am the rankings member on the Budget Committee, leader of the Democrats in opposition to the majority Republicans.

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.