Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 21
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I am my own woman…and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family’s needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person’s particular need is met, it’s the best leadership training you can have.Collection: Leadership
I want to show kids, look where I came from. You can do it too if you believe and are willing to work hard.Collection: Leadership
...as far as self-discipline goes, it's still ultimately up to me how well I can push myself. Only I can do that. I just have to keep on going, keep on working, keep on improving.Collection: Leadership
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.Collection: Leadership
Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.Collection: Leadership
I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."Collection: Leadership
Alas, not all things in life are easy; Even man struggles to be human.Collection: Leadership
A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.Collection: Leadership
If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I'm going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.Collection: Leadership
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.Collection: Leadership
If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.Collection: Leadership
A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.Collection: Leadership
To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.Collection: Leadership
Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.Collection: Leadership
Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.Collection: Leadership
The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what they do makes a difference. The best test as a leader is: Do those served grow as persons; do they become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become leaders?Collection: Leadership
Good leaders must first become good servants.Collection: Leadership
Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others.Collection: Leadership
The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.Collection: Leadership
If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.Collection: Leadership
The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of powerCollection: Leadership
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.Collection: Leadership
We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.Collection: Leadership
A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.Collection: Leadership
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.Collection: Leadership
It's alright to be Goliath but always act like David.Collection: Leadership
One way to show someone you love them is to simply go out of your way for them. It's the gift of inconvenience.Collection: Leadership
The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.Collection: Leadership
On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.Collection: Leadership
Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It's important that they are free to develop ideas. And rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It's not a big investment.Collection: Leadership
My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.Collection: Leadership
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.Collection: Leadership
The principal problem I had during the five years I ran the Caisse - and I bet you that it will be the same problem for my successor - is the retention, recruitment and training of competent personnel.Collection: Leadership
A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.Collection: Leadership
You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.Collection: Leadership
Being good is good businessCollection: Leadership
True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.Collection: Leadership
If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.Collection: Leadership
Our problem is not too little time, but making better use of the time we have. Each of us has as much time as anyone else.Collection: Leadership
Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment.Collection: Leadership
Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends to hold back people of vision from pushing ahead.Collection: Leadership
Desiring to excel is not a sin. It is motivation that determines ambition's character. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.Collection: Leadership
If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.Collection: Leadership
Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.Collection: Leadership
Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.Collection: Leadership
The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.Collection: Leadership
The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead.Collection: Leadership
I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was not immediately good at basketball. It did not come easy. It came as the result of a lot of hard work and self-sacrifice. The rewards, where they worth it? One thousand times over.Collection: Leadership
Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.Collection: Leadership