Leader Quotes - Page 51

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.

Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Fortune favours the bold.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag.

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

Learn what you are and be such.

Every human has a seed of greatness buried in a gift needed by the world.

Alas, not all things in life are easy; Even man struggles to be human.

Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on.

Nothing will undermine your effectiveness as a leader faster than a bad marriage.

Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.