Leadership Quotes - Page 67

The single greatest demotivator of a team is having members who are not carrying their load.

Your team has entrusted a portion of their life to you, and it's your job to help them grow, personally and professionally.

If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.

If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.

Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.

Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It's important that they are free to develop ideas. And rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It's not a big investment.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.

People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.

Progress requires change.

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.