Leadership Quotes - Page 24

It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.

Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything.

A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

If you create an environment where the people truly participate, you don't need control. They know what needs to be done and they do it. And the more that people will devote themselves to your cause on a voluntary basis, a willing basis, the fewer hierarchies and control mechanisms you need.

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

Leadership is action, not position

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Patience is a key element of success.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects - the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner "I stand for consensus"?

In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.

A lion never roars after a kill.

The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?

You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

The only prerequisites to leadership are that you remain positive, calm, and open-minded.

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.