Leadership Quotes - Page 30

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

Unless structure follows strategy, inefficiency results.

Nothing that I can do or say will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes — good will among men and peace on earth.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.

How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life – and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: ‘What's good in my life?’ and ‘What needs to be done?

An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.

It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.

Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.

Many people believe that decentralization means loss of control. That's simply not true. You can improve control if you look at control as the control of events and not people. Then, the more people you have controlling events - the more people you have that care about controlling the events, the more people you have proactively working to create favorable events - the more control you have within the organization, by definition.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.