Leader Quotes - Page 62

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples.

Purpose is what gives life meaning.

Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do. Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes.

A leader's most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.

I honestly believe that if you are willing to out-condition the opponent, have confidence in your ability, be more aggressive than your opponent and have a genuine desire for team victory, you will become the national champions. If you have all the above, you will acquire confidence and poise, and you will have those intangibles that win the close ones.

You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it’s free-but it can’t go anywhere.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.

The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.

Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

People in any organization, including bureaucrats and politicians, are always attached to the obsolete; the obsolescent; the things that should have worked but didn't; the things that once were productive and no longer are.

We want our leaders to be fair dinkum, as much among us as above us.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

People will walk through fire for a leader that's true and human.

To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press; but mean-time the leaders have changed themselves into parvenus who have to secure their position vis-a-vis the masses.

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

We really are going to have to answer the cries of everyday women and men who are calling out for elected leaders to do something different. They want to be treated fairly and they need a political party who represents them.