Leadership Quotes - Page 19

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power.

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision.

In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Great leadership usually starts with a willing heart, a positive attitude, and a desire to make a difference.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."

The sky cannot have two suns.

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.

Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed, its lack is sorely felt.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.