Leadership Quotes - Page 95

One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.

Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.

If you want to lead a family/team/organization, learn to lead/manage yourself first.

It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.

If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it.

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them...to everyone.

Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end.

I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

If a leader's actions don't back up his or her words, those who are trying to follow will first grow confused.

Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.

Do not do that which you would not have known.

Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.

My approach to the game has been the same at all the places I've been. Vanilla. The sure way. That means, first of all, to win physically. If you got eleven on a field, and they beat the other eleven physically, they'll win. They will start forcing mistakes. They'll win in the fourth quarter.

Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off.

I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work.

[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.

True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.

It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.