Leadership Quotes - Page 86

To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader.

I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.

I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary is a judgment call. The art of leadership is knowing how much information you're going to pass on - to keep people motivated and to be as honest, as upfront, as you can. But, boy, there really are limits to that.

The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.

A man is known by the company he owns.

Directing is to fill anyone with a yearning to get back at ten o'clock next morning.

You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.

Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.

We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.

Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select.

And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.

We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it through God's eyes. As much fun as it was to be winning, we tried not to get caught up in it. We knew that our family life and our faith walk were more important.

We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political culture lingers. There is something missing from our public debates.

Humility is always one play away.

It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to have established analysis as an independent science, which from his time on has maintained an unchallenged leadership in the field of mathematics.

To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.

All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

I think what Republicans want is someone who will stand up and lead, who will take on the great challenges of the day, who will make the case that the path we're on isn't working; that the Obama-economy is a disaster, that Obamacare is a trainwreck, that our constitutional rights are under assault and that we need to restore America's leadership in the world.