Leadership Quotes - Page 38

Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

It's about people coming to an understanding, a realisation that we must bridge the gap, build bridges and make people aware of what's happening. The award gives me the kind of pride and understanding that most people wouldn't think of. It is strengthening the Yolgnu people, but it's also giving strength to Balanda people who otherwise don't have that kind of understanding.

Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments .

We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he'd taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he'd taken a poll in Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll?

A bold onset is half the battle.

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

You can't teach court savvy

I'll never give up on a player regardless of his ability as long as he never gives up on himself. In time he will develop.

I have always tried to teach my players to be fighters. When I say that, I don't mean put up your dukes and get in a fistfight over something. I'm talking about facing adversity in your life. There is not a person alive who isn't going to have some awfully bad days in their lives. I tell my players that what I mean by fighting is when your house burns down, and your wife runs off with the drummer, and you've lost your job and all the odds are against you. What are you going to do? Most people just lay down and quit. Well, I want my people to fight back.

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.

True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.

I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the face of another. Making agreements and setting goals without building upon the feelings of the parties involved is empty, because it does not consider the vulnerabilities of our own humanity.

In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic.

Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115

The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose.