Leader Quotes - Page 82

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.

I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps.

It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

You must keep your composure. Take charge of the huddle. Be a leader. And silence, the crowd.

When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to neither the electorate nor the civil service chiefs.

When leaders put control into the hands of their people, at all levels, they unlock incalculable potential.

Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.

At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.

If you are a leader, it is not possible to be at peace with all and friends with everyone.

Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.

Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.

It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.

Everybody's got an opinion. Leaders are paid to make a decision. The difference between offering an opinion and making a decision is the difference between working for the leader and being the leader.

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team.

People imitate their leader. Lead by example.