Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 58
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Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.Collection: Leadership
If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.Collection: Leadership
Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?Collection: Leadership
No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.Collection: Leadership
People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher -- a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.Collection: Leadership
If you want it, measure it. If you can't measure it, forget it.Collection: Leadership
He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.Collection: Leadership
There's a difference between making incremental improvements and making sweeping changes that take you away from your core values.Collection: Leadership
I was able to look at football as something that God was allowing me to do, not something that should define me. I couldn't take my identity from this sport.Collection: Leadership
We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it through God's eyes. As much fun as it was to be winning, we tried not to get caught up in it. We knew that our family life and our faith walk were more important.Collection: Leadership
And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.Collection: Leadership
Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select.Collection: Leadership
We believed it was not our formations that made us good, but rather how we played.Collection: Leadership
There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.Collection: Leadership
Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.Collection: Leadership
Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.Collection: Leadership
The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.Collection: Leadership
If the practices and processes inside a company don't drive the execution of values, then people don't get it. The question is, do you create a culture of behavior and action that really demonstrates those values and a reward system for those who adhere to them?Collection: Leadership
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.Collection: Leadership
The first and last task of aleader is to keep hope alive.Collection: Leadership
If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.Collection: Leadership
Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded.Collection: Leadership
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.Collection: Leadership
'Teamwork' is the word that bosses use when they actually mean 'Do what I say'Collection: Leadership
We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.Collection: Leadership
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." -Collection: Leadership
I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.Collection: Leadership
A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.Collection: Leadership
People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.Collection: Leadership
Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it.Collection: Leadership
I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.Collection: Leadership
To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.Collection: Leadership
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.Collection: Leadership
Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.Collection: Leadership
Lions cannot afford to hunt mice because they literally will starve to death, even if they catch them. Lions and all large carnivores have to hunt game large enough to justify the investment, so they have to hunt antelope and zebra. Why is this important? Because most senior executives are really big on chipmunks.Collection: Leadership
When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.Collection: Leadership
People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.Collection: Leadership
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.Collection: Leadership
If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.Collection: Leadership
A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.Collection: Leadership
Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clearCollection: Leadership
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.Collection: Leadership
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.Collection: Leadership
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.Collection: Leadership
Do not do that which you would not have known.Collection: Leadership
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.Collection: Leadership
Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as were technical skills and purely cognitive abilities combined. In general the higher a position in an organization, the more EI mattered: for individuals in leadership positions, 85 percent of their competencies were in the EI domain.Collection: Leadership
The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.Collection: Leadership
The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated.Collection: Leadership