Leadership Quotes - Page 42

Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Emotions are the glue that holds the cells of the organism together.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

We control by attitudes-positive mental attitudes-not by rules.

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.

If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.

A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.

A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.

Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation