Leadership Quotes - Page 126

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Leadership always contains far more down cycles than ups. Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, Wilson, and both Roosevelts experienced setbacks that would have discouraged (the) less resilient.

We have to recognize that however smart we are, we're not smarter than everyone else combined. . . . We can't lose sight of the fact that no matter how important our own contributions are, we couldn't have gotten anywhere without the help and hard work of lots of other people.

Leadership in its best sense has never been about the pre-determined role cast on some to lead others.

The essentials of leadership are all about the use of one's talent in the interests of society.

There are no working hours for leaders.

That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

Helping to build a better-organized, fair and harmonious world: that idea lies at the heart of my conception of our country's role. Down through the centuries, France has provided answers to the great questions facing mankind. In continuing to do so, France is responding to a genuine demand, displaying leadership and influencing the course of events.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?

People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.

To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.

If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.

When I lose, it doesn't just go to my head; it goes to my heart too. If you're at all in the match, if you love to play and ein, it must go to your heart.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.

American leadership is essential.

The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.

Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.

It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.

Great leaders are paradoxical. They catalyze, rather control, the work of their teams. They have an overarching vision for the team but are not autocratic in the realization of this vision. Their eyes are open to whatever results occur-not just planned goals, because serendipity is a great innovator.

If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.