Leadership Quotes - Page 35

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

The word coach comes from the old English word coach, which was a vehicle, a carriage that took royalty or very important people from where they were to where they wanted to go. That's really what a coach is. He or she tries to create a vehicle that will help you get where you're going, not where the coach wants you to go.

He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.

Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we don't believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Dedicate yourself to a core set of values. Without them, you will never be able to find personal fulfillment, and you will never be able to lead effectively.

We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.

Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness.

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.

Find the right people, not the best people.

I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.

Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.