Leadership Quotes - Page 33

Service is a limitless opportunity, it is the reason why we breathe.

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade.

The film looks suspiciously like the game itself!

The world will not wait for us.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world.

Personal sacrifices are really the beginning and the end of everything, because you don't win because you do one thing right or two things right. You win because you do 1,000 little things right throughout the year.

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

It's not always easy to do the right thing. But, doing the right thing makes you strong, it builds character, it forces you to make decisions based upon your beliefs and not what other people think. In life, and in business, you have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone. But, what makes you a leader is having the courage of your convictions.

Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

These Australians hear the whispering in their heart and know it can only be silenced by coming to terms with the original owners of this beautiful and bounteous land. Many Australians of goodwill sense that a moment for national leadership has slipped past us and is gone.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.