Quotes about lead
leadership people important
When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure. Robert Townsend
leadership fun mistake
If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.
leadership running jobs
A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.
leader agents continuity
Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity.
leadership dream crazy
Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand. Robert G. Allen
leadership men people
As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves. Robert Green Ingersoll
leadership teacher book
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves. Rudyard Kipling
leadership law sky
Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
leadership president conservative
In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader. Rudy Giuliani
leader agendas critics
A leader must not let critics set the agenda.
leader times-of-crisis good-leader
It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.
leadership vision needs
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
leadership appreciation team-building
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune Sam Walton
leader hussein dictator
Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended. Saddam Hussein
leadership sports california
We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals. Ronald Reagan
leadership tests
The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Robert K. Greenleaf
leader feelings want
The servant leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve.
leadership firsts needs
Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others.
leader risk venture
A Leader is one who ventures and takes the risks of going out ahead to show the way and whom others follow, voluntarily, because they are persuaded that the leader's path is the right one-for them, probably better than they could devise for themselves.
leadership future-leaders firsts
Good leaders must first become good servants.
leadership light differences
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?
leader choices feelings
The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first...
leader choices library
The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders. Robert Hughes
leader return pennies
I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders Rodney Alexander
leader african-american reluctance
I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry
leadership sports dream
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence. Walt Disney
leader stories values
Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values.
leadership educational unique
Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is! Tom Peters
leadership curiosity important
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.'
leadership sorry team
Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their "personal style" was their "brand." ("It" starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team. Sorry to be politically insensitive, but who would give a hoot about Tibet if it weren't for the look and style of the Dalai Lama?) Boss at any level: You're either on the "it" boat-or not.
leader matter stuff
Leaders do stuff that matters.
leadership enough customers
It's not enough to be close to the customer. You've got to be glued to the customer.
leadership vision management
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.