Leadership Quotes - Page 22

Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.' But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn't a position, it's a process.

If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him. Don't be the "they" in this idiom: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.

Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.

Education is the mother of leadership.

Leaders can be wrong - but they can not be unclear.

...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader - the common purpose. The best executives put this common purpose clearly before their group. While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others, the ability to make purpose articulate. And then that common purpose becomes the leader.

There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or subtle elements but in seeing the obvious with fresh eyes. This is easier said than done because nothing is as hard to see as what's right before our eyes. We overlook what we take for granted. Billions of tea drinkers observed the force of steam escaping from water boiling in a kettle before James Watt realized that this vapor could be converted into energy.