Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 38
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My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.Collection: Leadership
I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.Collection: Leadership
The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.Collection: Leadership
But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.Collection: Leadership
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.Collection: Leadership
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.Collection: Leadership
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.Collection: Leadership
I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if He had taken a poll in the land of Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll? It isn't polls or public opinion alone of the moment that counts.Collection: Leadership
We've lost the wow of God because we've lost the woe of God. His perfect holiness helps us truly appreciate His amazing grace.Collection: Leadership
I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.Collection: Leadership
Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'Collection: Leadership
You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.Collection: Leadership
The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.Collection: Leadership
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." Ray Kroc "If some of today's leaders don't relearn the value of a smile, they'll be unable to fire up others' ability to find real enjoyment in their work.Collection: Leadership
If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.Collection: Leadership
I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.Collection: Leadership
The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.Collection: Leadership
I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.Collection: Leadership
The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.Collection: Leadership
I wasn't much good. When I went into the line on a fake - I would holler 'I don't have it!'Collection: Leadership
I believe that the capacity that any organization needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.Collection: Leadership
Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.Collection: Leadership
The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government -- people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty. The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.Collection: Leadership
Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections of their race, in a premature and unnatural manner, undermine the very foundation of virtue, and spread corruption through the whole mass of society!Collection: Leadership
Why do we universally admire and respect a Gandhi, Mandela, Mother Teresa, Lincoln, or any other leader or legend from history's pantheon? It is because they were guided by integrity-based practices. They stood for something. They didn't break with the values they believed in just because they faced struggle.Collection: Leadership
Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.Collection: Leadership
A leader’s most powerful ally is his or her own example.Collection: Leadership
Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.Collection: Leadership
I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.Collection: Leadership
They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.Collection: Leadership
True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.Collection: Leadership
We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the truth." The point is clear: If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the king acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people.Collection: Leadership
Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward.Collection: Leadership
Me and Sandra are thoroughly satisfied customers as parents of kids who came through this Orange model.Collection: Leadership
If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.Collection: Leadership
When you harness your leadership skill to your broken heart change happens.Collection: Leadership
We ask our volunteers, "Do you work here?" They say, "Not yet."Collection: Leadership
Leaders fix things that are broken.Collection: Leadership
We want time in with our kids not time out.Collection: Leadership
I would do almost anything Tina Fey asks me to do.Collection: Leadership
To lead, one must follow.Collection: Leadership
The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.Collection: Leadership
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.Collection: Leadership
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to have established analysis as an independent science, which from his time on has maintained an unchallenged leadership in the field of mathematics.Collection: Leadership
A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.Collection: Leadership
Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.Collection: Leadership
Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.Collection: Leadership