Leader Quotes - Page 113

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out - whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.

A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.

The greatest thing you do as a leader may not be what you do as a leader but who watches you do what you do.

The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown.

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

A true leader helps people focus on their potential, not on their limitations.

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got Could see all kinds of things other people could not! So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?

You always need something to complain about. And if you can't come up with anything better, you come along with team leaders. I don't believe in this chitchat.

There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But having made the case we are now seeing an emerging consensus among business leaders, economic leaders, political leaders and even faith leaders.

We will no longer be led only by that half of the population whose socialization, through toys, games, values and expectations, sanctions violence as the final assertion of manhood, synonymous with nationhood.

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.

Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.

The manager administers; the leader innovates.