Leadership Quotes - Page 123

Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk.

Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

A leader's attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions.

True Leadership always begins with the inner person.

The real leader holds the power, not just the position.

The leader finds the dream and then the people. The people find the leader and then the dream.

Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.

Leadership development is a lifetime journey, not a quick trip.

To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.

People are training for success when they should be training for failure.

The bottomline in leadership isn't how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others.

Thinking is hard; that's why so few do it.

42% of college graduates never read a book after college.

We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

Encourage the many; mentor the few.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.