Leader Quotes - Page 120

Because sometimes the best leaders are the ones who have no interest in leading. Those are often the ones who are most interested in doing what is right, not what is popular.

Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.

You yourself are the teacher, and the pupil, you're the master, you're the guru, you are the leader, you are everything! And, to understand is to transform what is.

Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

I am struck that so many of our leaders in the U.S. forget how strong our country can be.

You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.

There is no freeway to the future, no paved highway from here to there. There is only wilderness, uncertain terrain. There are no roadmaps, no signposts. So pioneering leaders rely upon a compass and a dream

Leaders must know where they are going if they expect others to willingly join them on the journey.

The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused.

When employees underperform, a leader tells them so.

If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

The first key to leadership is self-control.

A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's.

Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.

The final estimate of men shows that history cares not an iota for the rank or title a man has borne, or the office he has held, but only the quality of his deeds and the character of his mind and heart.

God is always at work, though we cannot see it, preparing people he has chosen for leadership. When the crisis comes, God fits His appointee into the place ordained for him.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

A political leader worthy of assassination

You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.

We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow.

Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.