Leader Quotes - Page 60

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact

Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.

If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.

A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.

A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

The movement must go beyond its leaders

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.

Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.

You become a leader when you decide to be an original and not a copy.

Political leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own. They know the words, but they have not learned the tune.

we should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader.