Leadership Quotes - Page 94

While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.

The most important thing you do as a leader is to hire the right people.

There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do.

One of the major sources of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness comes from feeling as if your life is out of control.

I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices . . . and recover quickly from their bad choices.

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.

In large organizations there are discrete functions. I do this; you do that. I swim in my lane; you swim in your lane. That can be very effective for certain processes and in certain stable conditions. But it doesn't work in unstable conditions.

Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as were technical skills and purely cognitive abilities combined. In general the higher a position in an organization, the more EI mattered: for individuals in leadership positions, 85 percent of their competencies were in the EI domain.

No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

It's not about you. It's about them.

It's such a rarity to have women in senior powerful positions. We can name them all. Fact is, women can handle power and handle it well. That's something I'd like a lot more women to understand.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

Leadership is defined not by the position you hold but by the people who follow you.

A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.

The most inspiring leaders are those who... inspire the rest of us to be our best selves and to match our skills with our passions. They give us confidence to pursue our dreams.

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

We've gotten so much as a result of the changes. Part of our responsibility is to give something back to the game and the girls who are just starting to play.

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.

The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.