Leadership Quotes - Page 51

If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself.

I think the most important thing of all for any team is a winning attitude. The coaches must have it. The players must have it. The student body must have it. If you have dedicated players who believe in themselves, you don't need a lot of talent.

The secret to success is doing the best that you can do. Forget about whether you might win or lose. By working hard and practicing the skills that you need to perform, the results will take care of themselves. Being successful is about doing your best.

I came out to beat everybody in sight, and that's just what I'm going to do.

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

T-shirts create a sense of "We". Food says, "We don't mind spending money on you."

There is no algorithm for creativity.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life

What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees your value; it's who you are on the inside. And when you're in Christ, that's never going to change.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.

What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.

Talent is important. But the single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself. I really believe that that's been ultimately important for us.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.

There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow.