Leader Quotes - Page 94

Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising of a telephone box. It is not helpful for understanding what hit New York on September 11. Those people were not mindless and they were certainly not cowards. On the contrary, they had sufficiently effective minds braced with an insane courage, and it would pay us mightily to understand where that courage came from. It came from religion.

I think business leaders all over the world should not just think of how we can make lots of money, which is fine, but to take some of the problems in the world and get out there and tackle them using business. I think that if businesses do that we can get on top of these problems.

The strongest leaders do not command, they empower

Fascistic leaders are aggressively macho and chauvinistic. They are xenophobic about people who they portray as outsiders or some sort of threat to the nation or as weaklings they can denounce.

What politics is all about today. Blah-blah-blah. The day that stops and the quality of our leaders improve, I will have to retire and go away.

I therefore suggested that WWF should invite leaders from the major religions to meet together to discuss what - if any - responsibility they felt they had for the natural environment as a "sacred" entity.

We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.

I must say that part of our national wealth is not only the nation's people but those people who lead them.

Hope that there are many, many small leaders.

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

I think cinema is needed throughout Africa, because we are lagging behind in the knowledge of our own history. I think we need to create a culture that is our own. I think that images are very fascinating and very important to that end. But right now, cinema is only in the hands of film-makers because most of our leaders are afraid of cinema.

I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If you do that, then the person sees that you have a complete picture of him. There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

When a person gets to know his Creator, and finally comes to know himself, then his leadership is born.

The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.

The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions

The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.

You don't have to be sick to get better.

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed.