Leadership Quotes - Page 36

Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.

In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

For Aboriginal leaders, the social and moral obligation that comes with community leadership is life-long. Those who lead, who have authority, must care for and look after those who come behind.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

Satan will try to use our troubles to worry and weaken us. But God uses them to strengthen us.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

Fortune favours the bold.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.