Leader Quotes - Page 97

I will keep a substantial long exposure to gold -- which serves as a Jelly Donut antidote for my portfolio. While I'd love for our leaders to adopt sensible policies that would reduce the tail risks so that I could sell our gold, one nice thing about gold is that it doesn't even have quarterly conference calls.

It is the obligation of the ruler to continually renew himself in order to renew the people by his example.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

I have always admired the Linking Pin theory of management specialist Rensis Likert. It says that in every organization there are leaders who link the lower level to the upper level. What makes somebody an effective link as a leader is that he conveys down everything that above wants and he conveys up everything that below needs.

Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality.

Some parents struggle to put food on the table. And plenty of women aren't getting the pay they deserve. While I don't expect the government to solve all these problems, I do want leaders who care about these things and do what they can to help.

It's not my goal to be a leader or spokesperson, or anything like that.

I call myself the assistant cult leader.

You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.

A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.

I don't know of any government leaders that are killers.

Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.

A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.

I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.

Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.

If you as a pastor don't have a passion for evangelism then don't be surprised if your people done either.

You cannot have more than one leader worldwide. So, you would only have one Caliph for all of the Muslim world, so whoever that is, he would have authority over all of the Muslim land and wherever the Sharia is implemented.

I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.

We must never return to the Julie Andrews curriculum where we teach "a few of my favorite things"!

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.

A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him.

I would love to be a corporate leader.

I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.