Leader Quotes - Page 31

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really concerned about it, the people will take the lead and make the leaders follow.

I am the object of criticism around the world. But I think that since I am being discussed, then I am on the right track.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

It takes people who have a widespread series of experiences to develop future leaders. It takes people who aren't afraid to challenge and move forward.

There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell

We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.

As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers.

Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time sellers had more information than buyers. That meant sellers could hoodwink buyers, especially if buyers did not have a lot of choices or a way to talk back.

My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.

To make peace, one must be an uncompromising leader. To make peace, one must also embody compromise.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

More and more leaders around the world are joining the struggle. More and more individuals understand that any abuse of any woman is intolerable.

I'm not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future.

It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.

I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything.

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.