Leader Quotes - Page 33

Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.

The only prerequisites to leadership are that you remain positive, calm, and open-minded.

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

A business leader has to keep their organization focused on the mission. That sounds easy, but it can be tremendously challenging in today's competitive and ever-changing business environment. A leader also has to motivate potential partners to join.

Leaders should be able to Stand Alone, Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth, and Do What's Right

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.

Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own.

As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.

Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the battalion commander or Gen. William Westmoreland or President Lyndon Johnson. If you are a squad leader, answer questions about what you know and do.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.

The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.