Leader Quotes - Page 68

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me.

Our problem as leaders is we do everything we know to do. That's not enough. We need to do everything God wants us to do.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.

A leader can transform an army of frightened people into fearless people.

No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes.

It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.

By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.

The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.

The enemy has always been able to point the finger of suspicion and/or guilt to Black leaders that they are enriching themselves at the expense of the people.

To lead people, walk behind them.

What seems over your head is always under His feet.

Managers control. Leaders create commitment.

There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for popular support by promises of material gain. We cannot make peace by mere appeal to greed. We must give the peoples of the world something to live for as well as something to live on.

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.