Leader Quotes - Page 90

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

I saw that leaders placed too much emphasis on what some call high level strategy, on intellectualizing and philosophizing, and not enough on implementation. People would agree on a project or initiative, and then nothing would come of it.

A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn't get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.

If leadership is the act of going beyond what is ... it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves.

Nobody knows how Honda is organized, except that it uses lots of project teams and is quite flexible.

When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.

Leadership is developed daily, not in a day.

There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.

Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.

People's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness.

...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.

I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.

Slaves do what others want. Servants do what others need.

A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.

Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.

Desiring to excel is not a sin. It is motivation that determines ambition's character. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.

There are no reluctant leaders. A real leader must really want the job. . . . If you find the need for a leader and have to coax or urge your selection, you'll be well advised to pass him over. He's not the man you need.

One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own story; to explain us to ourselves; to help us weave some meaning and purpose into the fabric of our lives; to illuminate our understanding of where we have come from; to paint word pictures of our future onto which we can project our aspirations.

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development, without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.