Leadership Quotes - Page 100

Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

But the law of magnetism really is true: who you are is who you attract.

Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.

Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.

Solution = Conflict + Collaboration

The demands of leadership have changed. The highest levels if leadership require mastery of a new task: job creation. Traditional leadership through politics, military force, religion, or personal values won't work in the future like it has in the past.

If you don't have an emotionally healthy staff you won't move forward as an organization.

Asking for money is better over coffee than over a computer.

Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.

The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

My current fear is that the message being sent by the level of vitriol surrounding Gillard's flawed leadership (but tell me whose wasn't flawed) is being heard by Australian women and girls loud and clear. And the message is: 'Don't aspire to high office,sweetheart, because we'll flay you alive.'

Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.

It turns out that doing the right thing, treating people right, is also the right thing for the company.

... that ultimate success in community leadership will only be achieved if it stimulates participation by others who are also to be seen as in their own way leaders and not merely helpers.

If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?

Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will. Understand that they are very ambitious; but their ambition, first and foremost, is for the company's success. They realize that the most important step they must make to become a Level 5 leader is to subjugate their ego to the company's performance. When asked for interviews, these leaders will agree only if it's about the company and not about them.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more rigorous discipline from within. Those who rebel against authority and scorn self-discipline - who shirk the rigors and turn from the sacrifices - do not qualify to lead.

Our problem is not too little time, but making better use of the time we have. Each of us has as much time as anyone else.

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.