Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 48
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Leaders when not leading are outcasts.Collection: Leadership
The foreman today does not merely deal with trouble, he forestalls trouble. In fact, we don't think much of a foreman who is always dealing with trouble; we feel that if he is doing his job properly, there won't be so much trouble.Collection: Leadership
Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of each, many are coming to regard the leader as the man who can energize his group, who knows how to encourage initiative, how to draw from all what each has to give.Collection: Leadership
Kids on a team are like flowers in a bouquet, there is always one that wants to face a different way than the arranger desires.Collection: Leadership
Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.Collection: Leadership
Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.Collection: Leadership
The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.Collection: Leadership
The leader is the organization's top strategist... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.Collection: Leadership
You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.Collection: Leadership
Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts.Collection: Leadership
If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.Collection: Leadership
There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development, without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.Collection: Leadership
I sought the advice and cooperation from all those around me- but not permission.Collection: Leadership
You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.Collection: Leadership
While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.Collection: Leadership
If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.Collection: Leadership
I'll never give up on a player regardless of his ability as long as he never gives up on himself. In time he will develop.Collection: Leadership
Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.Collection: Leadership
I have always tried to teach my players to be fighters. When I say that, I don't mean put up your dukes and get in a fistfight over something. I'm talking about facing adversity in your life. There is not a person alive who isn't going to have some awfully bad days in their lives. I tell my players that what I mean by fighting is when your house burns down, and your wife runs off with the drummer, and you've lost your job and all the odds are against you. What are you going to do? Most people just lay down and quit. Well, I want my people to fight back.Collection: Leadership
You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team.Collection: Leadership
But there's one thing about quitters you have to guard against - they are contagious. If one boy goes, the chances are he'll take somebody with him, and you don't want that. So when they would start acting that way, I used to pack them up and get them out, or embarrass them, or do something to turn them around.Collection: Leadership
Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.Collection: Leadership
You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.Collection: Leadership
I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work.Collection: Leadership
I think this transition to a candidacy will allow me to be more direct about my advocacy of the leadership skills necessary for the next president to fix a few things, and as a candidate, contrary to someone who has been listening and learning along the way, I'll offer up alternatives to the path we're on as well, so I'll be more specific on policy.Collection: Leadership
O philosophy, you leader of life.Collection: Leadership
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.Collection: Leadership
Few things feel as unbelievably great as working out hard.Collection: Leadership
Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.Collection: Leadership
What you are saying is true of those who want everything to give way to them, nothing to oppose them, everything to go their way, people to obey them without comment or delay and, in a manner of speaking, to be adored.Collection: Leadership
If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.Collection: Leadership
Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them.Collection: Leadership
The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.Collection: Leadership
Surround our children with a message of honorCollection: Leadership
If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.Collection: Leadership
I honestly believe that if you are willing to out-condition the opponent, have confidence in your ability, be more aggressive than your opponent and have a genuine desire for team victory, you will become the national champions. If you have all the above, you will acquire confidence and poise, and you will have those intangibles that win the close ones.Collection: Leadership
People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat.Collection: Leadership
Be aware of "yes" men. Generally, they are losers. Surround yourself with winners. Never forget - people win.Collection: Leadership
The biggest mistake coaches make is taking borderline cases and trying to save them. I'm not talking about grades now, I'm talking about character. I want to know before a boy enrolls about his home life, and what his parents want him to be.Collection: Leadership
I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.Collection: Leadership
I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.Collection: Leadership
Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.Collection: Leadership
If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.Collection: Leadership
We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.Collection: Leadership
The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.Collection: Leadership
Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.Collection: Leadership
Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.Collection: Leadership
Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.Collection: Leadership
Build wisdom and confidence in others by forcing them to think and decide for themselves.Collection: Leadership