Quotes about leaders
leadership strong decision
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. Henry Blodget
leadership men vision
The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship. Hendrik Willem Van Loon
leadership spiritual work
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so. Mahatma Gandhi
leadership needs angry
When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.
leadership swim individuality
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. Malcolm Muggeridge
leadership positivity creative
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. Malcolm Gladwell
leadership people together
Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate. John C. Maxwell
leadership responsibility passion
Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.
leadership dream capacity
Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.
leadership character organization
Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.
leadership people flight
My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.
leadership people talent
Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.
leadership dream reality
Leadership is the dream made reality.
leadership dream eye
When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.
leadership pride advice
Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.
leadership hands organization
Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.
leadership pain loss
The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.
leadership years trying
Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.
leadership giving people
People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.
leadership humility
Have the humility to learn from those around you.
leadership opportunity thinking
People who are not leaders automatically gravitate toward lines--limitations set by others. Many people are taught this in kindergarten when they are instructed to stay within the lines while coloring. But leaders are more creative than that. They look for options and opportunities. They try to take things in a new direction, or beyond the limit. Progress and innovation are made by people who think without lines.
leadership people close-friends
All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.
leadership dream knowing
The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.
leadership achievement
Without failure there is no achievement.
leadership power-of-one
Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.
leadership two family-and-friends
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
leadership growing-up team
Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.
leadership progress doe
Progress does not occur without change.
leadership people tough-times
Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people wouldn't need you!
leadership dream grateful
Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams.
leadership people
Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.
leadership order challenges
The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself, then I will understand the challenge of trying to change others. This is the ultimate test of leadership.
leadership people chance
The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.