Leadership Quotes - Page 125

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

Our province needs united leadership and shared purpose in tackling the challenges we face.

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

The world is full of men who want to be right, when actually the secret of a man's strength and his pathway to true honor is his ability to admit fault when he has failed. God wants to fill the church with men who can say they are wrong when THEY ARE WRONG. A man who is willing to humble himself before God and his family and say: "I was wrong." will find that his family has all the confidence in the world in him and will much more readily follow him. If he stubbornly refuses to repent or admit he was wrong, their confidence in him and in his leadership erodes.

Non-profit organizations think like non-profit organizations. That's the problem.

At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?

We need ask more questions.

Non-profits find the very best Who and put them on their Boards because they don't want to pay them.

For profits think, "We've got to find that finest talent available, pay them what they're worth, and put them into their daily solutions. " Apply the Who to the What.

I love everybody but I don't have to hire everybody.

I want you to be a connoisseur of great questions? Here's one - what would we do if we had no money?

I have to look at our staff and ask the hard question - Would I hire them again?

Charitable giving in the United States has remained at 2% of GDP since 1970.

The solutions the non-profits are trying to provide aren't keeping pace with the problems they're trying to survive.

What's it like to be on the other side of me?

I eat "NOs" for breakfast.

Talent matters. Systems matter. Strategies matter. We can't just bring nice people together and think we're going to solve the world's problems.

Keep your character several steps ahead of your talent

I think this transition to a candidacy will allow me to be more direct about my advocacy of the leadership skills necessary for the next president to fix a few things, and as a candidate, contrary to someone who has been listening and learning along the way, I'll offer up alternatives to the path we're on as well, so I'll be more specific on policy.

I kind of know what my job is, it's to develop a message that's hopeful and optimistic about the future of the country, to develop ideas that will give people a sense that they can lift up, and to tell them about my leadership skills to make it so.

Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.

Senior members of the security establishment have not been entirely cooperative - let's put it that way - with the operations and still maintain contacts with FDLR leadership.

It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fundamental cog in the wheel.