Leadership Quotes - Page 47

If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.

I need to treat everybody fairly, but fair doesn't always mean equal.

The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.

No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes.

It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

To lead people, walk behind them.

What seems over your head is always under His feet.

There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for popular support by promises of material gain. We cannot make peace by mere appeal to greed. We must give the peoples of the world something to live for as well as something to live on.

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after the country, because they won't.