Leader Quotes - Page 54

A leader's job is to help his people.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Christianity is an extreme call to a radical life following a revolutionary leader.

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.

True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

Cities can be rebuilt, industries can be rebuilt, what really matters are strategy forces, military forces and the cadres leaders, political, military and economic.

I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the face of another. Making agreements and setting goals without building upon the feelings of the parties involved is empty, because it does not consider the vulnerabilities of our own humanity.

In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic.

Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115

The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose.

The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.

The superior leader keeps informed about everything but interferes hardly at all.

America is in a newly competitive position around the world, and unless we keep our lead in education for all of our people and do the research along with that, other nations will start outdoing us and they will be leaders in the world.

Preparedness and punctuality are two of the most important qualities of a leader.

Forgiving behavior is dealing with situations as they arise in an assertive manner and then letting go of any lingering resentment. As the leader, if you are not able to let go of the resentment, it will consume you and render you ineffective.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

For those who say you're thinking too big... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that?... look them in the eyes and say, I'll figure it out.

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

Lots of leaders want to be popular. I never cared about that. I want to be respected.

A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement.

One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside