Leader Quotes - Page 42

How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life – and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: ‘What's good in my life?’ and ‘What needs to be done?

An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.

You can't be jealous and be a leader.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

Don't Latin Americans have the right to ask why their elected governments are being opposed and coup leaders supported?.. Poverty and hardship in large parts of Africa are preventing this from happening. Don't they have the right to ask why their enormous wealth - including minerals - is being looted, despite the fact that they need it more than others?

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Many leaders don't listen, and it is one of the greatest methods we have of learning. You need to listen to those under your supervision and to those who are above you.

The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.

It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.

Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.

Many people believe that decentralization means loss of control. That's simply not true. You can improve control if you look at control as the control of events and not people. Then, the more people you have controlling events - the more people you have that care about controlling the events, the more people you have proactively working to create favorable events - the more control you have within the organization, by definition.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you?