Leadership Quotes - Page 88

The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.

We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.

Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control.

It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

The stress that they're under is absolutely extreme. Indefinite detention. Not knowing when you're going to get out. The threat of being sent back to a country that you fear you're going to be murdered or tortured upon return. I mean, this is the most extreme form of stress you can possibly conjure up. And our country is doing this to these people.

"Spirituality" in business sounds lofty. How practical is it? The answer is "very." There's a fundamental way in which Spirit and consciousness contribute to worldly success-and it has long been ignored. [. . .] As experts, authors and gurus often note, the game of business is to influence the external world. But here's the point: How can you control your environment if you can't even manage your own thoughts and emotions? In other words, how do you rule the world without first mastering yourself? The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery.

Leadership doesn't mean giving marching orders that others must follow blindly. Rather, it means causing others to want to follow. Successful leadership is personal.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

How you spend your time defines who you are.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

Women lead in ways different from men's. Men, I think, have been programmed to give orders. Women have been programmed to motivate people, to educate them, to bring out the best in them. Ours is a less authoritarian leadership. I think women tend to play hardball less often. This is the trend of office politics anyway: the days of warring factions are over. We're talking now in terms of cooperation, and I think that is the game women play best.

Expand the leadership.

My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

I'll quit competing when my heart quits beating

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Make sure your vision is God's vision.

The foreman today does not merely deal with trouble, he forestalls trouble. In fact, we don't think much of a foreman who is always dealing with trouble; we feel that if he is doing his job properly, there won't be so much trouble.