Leadership Quotes - Page 17

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," not the Bible, save as leading to Him.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

Never ask anyone to do what you haven't done before and wouldn't do again. That's a pretty fundamental rule in leadership... treat them like you treat yourself. Things you don't like, they don't like.

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.