Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 23
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Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Leadership
In order to be successful at anything you choose to do, you must make a 100 percent commitment to what it is you are trying to do. If you put 50 percent of your ability into it, that is all that you will get out of it. You must discipline your body and your mind to work towards the goals you have set. Once you have made this decision, then the work begins.Collection: Leadership
It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership.Collection: Leadership
It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industryCollection: Leadership
How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist.Collection: Leadership
Don't wait to be a great man; be a great boy!Collection: Leadership
Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Jim McMahon: A great natural leader. Great ability. Great presence. For a guy who was supposed to be blind in one eye, he had as much vision as anyone I've ever seen. He'd know instinctively where he should turn and where he should throw the ball. He was never a problem on the field. He was kind of cocky, but that didn't bother me. He had such a quick delivery and such a natural ability. I told Chicago he'd win them a Super Bowl.Collection: Leadership
My general rule, which I have followed throughout my coaching career, is that everyone doesn't necessarily get treated the same way, because I'm not sure that's possible. But everyone has to be treated fairly. Moreover, they have to know and trust that they will be treated fairly. Dennis Green, NFL Coach There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over, and over... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility of being caught off-guard.Collection: Leadership
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!Collection: Leadership
So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.Collection: Leadership
Why Me? Why You? Why His? Why Hers, Why Mine? or Why Theirs? It should be We and Ours.Collection: Leadership
First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.Collection: Leadership
Those who are skilled in combat do notbecome angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.Collection: Leadership
An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.Collection: Leadership
Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.Collection: Leadership
You can only govern men by serving them.Collection: Leadership
A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.Collection: Leadership
If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.Collection: Leadership
The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader to do that. The definition of strong leadership is to make decisions that are unpopular, but are nevertheless sound.Collection: Leadership
Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.Collection: Leadership
The secret to success is doing the best that you can do. Forget about whether you might win or lose. By working hard and practicing the skills that you need to perform, the results will take care of themselves. Being successful is about doing your best.Collection: Leadership
The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for the good of the nation, for the good of humanity, and recognizes the qualities he has and what he can do within his own limitations. He cannot do, and should not attempt to do, the impossible, but he should not fail to attempt something that might be extremely difficult and may be possible.Collection: Leadership
It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.Collection: Leadership
I'll tell you...why Wonder Woman worked. Or Bionic Woman. Or any of those [shows] really. It was because it wasn't about brawn...it was about brains. And yes, she happened to be beautiful, she happened to be kind of extraordinary in some way, but she wasn't a guy. And I think that, [now], they...put out a female hero, and all they are doing is changing the costume from a man to a woman...they're not showcasing any of the tremendous dichotomies than women possess in term of softness and toughness, sweetness and grit, inner and outer strength.Collection: Leadership
And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.Collection: Leadership
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.Collection: Leadership
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.Collection: Leadership
The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.Collection: Leadership
Personal sacrifices are really the beginning and the end of everything, because you don't win because you do one thing right or two things right. You win because you do 1,000 little things right throughout the year.Collection: Leadership
Now there are five matters to which a general must pay strict heed. The first of these is administration; the second, preparedness; the third, determination; the fourth, prudence; and the fifth, economy.Collection: Leadership
Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.Collection: Leadership
The company was quite hierarchical. I often think it was like a pyramid with Robert at the top and lots of us paying homage to him. I try to turn the pyramid upside down so that I'm at the bottom and bubbling away and encouraging people and energizing them so that they are all empowered so that they can do what they need to do, now that's the dream.Collection: Leadership
It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fundamental cog in the wheel.Collection: Leadership
Delegation is the passing on of actions, actions, not the passing on of responsibility.Collection: Leadership
Leaders live by choice, not by accident.Collection: Leadership
We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets.Collection: Leadership
Is the leadership of the worldwide church in the hands of men and women who know how to lead others one by one to Jesus Christ? We are so concerned with planning and administration that there is a danger lest we allow these things to serve as an excuse for not doing the one thing on which all else depends.Collection: Leadership
The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.Collection: Leadership
Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre. (Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.)Collection: Leadership
Your job gives you authority. Your behavior gives you respectCollection: Leadership
There are no office hours for leaders.Collection: Leadership
There are no working hours for leaders.Collection: Leadership
That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.Collection: Leadership
The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.Collection: Leadership
We finally got Nebraska where we want them...off the schedule.Collection: Leadership
The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social "forces" - are the prime movers in human affairs.Collection: Leadership