Leadership Quotes - Page 71

My generation's parents told their children, "Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class." But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.

Knowing what is right is not the same as doing what is right.

Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.

Our greatest individual challenge in life is self-discipline. The self-discipline of a healthy diet, daily exercise, controlling our thoughts, selflessly serving others, and living a life of integrity.

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.

Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them

We will no longer be led only by that half of the population whose socialization, through toys, games, values and expectations, sanctions violence as the final assertion of manhood, synonymous with nationhood.