Leader Quotes - Page 57

I do what I'm coached to do. That's part of being a team leader and captain. The job will change week in and week out, and it's not for you to question what your job is - it's to go out there and execute your assignments.

Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.

Leadership means realizing potential-in yourself and in the people you lead.... The leader and followers cocreate their identities and performance.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs.

A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.

A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.

The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities.

It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

The boss drives people; The leader coaches them.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

In America, public opinion is the leader

U.S. leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.

Doing the right thing isn't always easy - in fact, sometimes it's real hard - but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.

Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.