Leadership Quotes - Page 64

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.

I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

The best leaders are very often the best listeners. They have an open mind. They are not interested in having their own way but in finding the best way.

The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.

Leaders aren't born they are made.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

God's definition of success is really one of the significant differences our lives can make in the lives of others.

I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

Here's a memonic device that I feel teaches how we can properly cope with failure. Forget about your failures; don't dwell on past mistakes Anticipate failure; realize that we all make mistakes. Intensity in everything you do; never be a failure for lack of effort. Learn from your mistakes; don't repeat previous errors. Understand why you failed; diagnose your mistakes so as to not repeat them. Respond, don't react to errors; responding corrects mistakes while reacting magnifies them. Elevate your self-concept. It's OK to fail, everyone does; now how are you going to deal with the failure

I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product.

Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.

What you can't enforce, do not command.

I want to show kids, look where I came from. You can do it too if you believe and are willing to work hard.

The unique ability to take decisive action while maintainign focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.