Leader Quotes - Page 58

Leaders goal: Don't be afraid of vulnerability & transparency, (without being pitiful). People respond to authenticity.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.

When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, "New Labour is a new political party" - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.

The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.

We've got to make the small things unforgettable.

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.

With all the power that a president has, the most important thing to bear in mind is this: You must not give power to a man unless, above everything else, he has character. Character is the most important qualification the president of the United States can have.

A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.

People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves

Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.

While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.

Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.

I think, you know, architecture should not just be something that follows up on events but be a leader of events ... by implementing an architectural action, you actually are making a transformation in the social fabric and in the political fabric. Architecture becomes an instigator.

The core in the Juche outlook on the revolution is loyalty to the party and the leader. The cause of socialism and communism is started by the leader and is carried out under the guidance of the party and the leader.

Men die the way they lived.

Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.