Leadership Quotes - Page 54

Leaders live by choice, not by accident.

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

Whenever I think about an issue, I always argue the opposite side of it. So, when I ultimately decide on a course of action, I've already been through all the conceivable scenarios, and I'm going to go for it.

The purpose of life is to matter and be ever mindful of the opportunities that we can both individually and collectively provide for others.

I think one of the reasons our court system wants to remove The 10 Commandments is because The 10 Commandments reminds us we are sinners.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

No man is a hero in his own country.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

It's lonely at the top, so you better know why you are there.

I used to say, "Go boldly in among the English," and then I used to go boldly in myself.

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.

Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.

God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual gifts are given with clear purpose.

The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.

A true Leader asks advice, when he has time to think; but he never asks advice in a crisis. He acts.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

No one will give you change. You have to work for it. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by working hard, by believing in yourself, by proving yourself. There are windows, but if you are radical, no one will talk to you. And that window will shut.

Barry Jones once said that Australia is the only country where the word 'academic' is a pejorative. The academic sector has a vibrant and practical role to play in this complex world of ours. Higher education and research are worthy of your much closer attention. Yes, we can be and should be the clever country. Our progress can be within the highest ethical and moral framework. But this will only happen if we place appropriate emphasis on education, research and innovation within a truly international framework.

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.