Leader Quotes - Page 9

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

When we step on the battlefield, I will be The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.

Motivation and inspiration energize people, not by pushing them in the right direction as control mechanisms do but by satisfying basic human needs for achievement, a sense of belonging, recognition, self-esteem, a feeling of control over one's life, and the ability to live up to one's ideals. Such feelings touch us deeply and elicit a powerful response.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

A Homeland, A State, A Leader.

Good leaders must first become good servants.

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

I think we have to rethink the concept of “leader.” 'Cause “leader” implies “follower.” And, so many- not so many, but I think we need to appropriate, embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier

Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.