Leadership Quotes - Page 61

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.

Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.

Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.

Leaders are not born, they're made.

You can only govern men by serving them.

If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions, motivations, and perceptions necessary for great performance.

Invincibility is in oneself, and vulnerability is in the opponent. Invincibility is a matter of defense, vulnerability is a matter of attack. Therefore skillful warriors are able to be invincible, but they cannot cause opponents to be vulnerable. That is why it is said that victory is discerned and not manufactured.

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now - and now is when you should do it.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.

Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies — especially in this hemisphere. None of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong.

We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.

I must say that part of our national wealth is not only the nation's people but those people who lead them.

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If you do that, then the person sees that you have a complete picture of him. There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.