Quotes about leadership
leadership business should-have
A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure. Jack Ma
leadership business choices
If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then be different from your peers. Jack Ma
leadership business real
A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit. Jack Ma
leadership business real
If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him. Don't be the "they" in this idiom: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Jack Ma
leadership business size
Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn't regard yourself as a weakling. Jack Ma
leadership business trends
Adopt and change before any major trends or changes. Jack Ma
leadership business mean
What starting your company means: you will lose your stable income, your right to apply for a leave of absence, and your right to get a bonus. However, it also means your income will no longer be limited, you will use your time more effectively, and you will no longer need to beg for favours from people anymore. Jack Ma
leadership business people
Find the right people, not the best people. Jack Ma
leadership business opportunity
A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities. Jack Ma
leadership people management
When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people. Guy Kawasaki
leadership thinking revolutionary-leaders
Revolutionary leaders have to care more about what they think of themselves than what the world thinks of them. Guy Kawasaki
leadership succeed failing
Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing. Guy Kawasaki
leadership responsibility thinking
If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of what you genuinely think is in the public interest... put the public interest above the vested interest. Graeme Samuel
leadership integrity important
You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity. Graeme Samuel
leadership political world
The Taliban has a huge leadership problem at a critical political moment, another caliph has announced himself to the world, and the Taliban has been silent. And that is getting noticed by militants across South Asia. Graeme Smith
leadership doors people
A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason. Harold Geneen
leadership business reality
I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality Harold Geneen
leadership born-leaders taught
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. Harold Geneen
leadership desire fit
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead. Gwendolyn Brooks
leadership party ready
If the party leadership wants, then I am ready for it. Rahul Gandhi
leadership people
If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action. Jakaya Kikwete
leadership
I have told the leadership I am opposed, Heather Wilson
leadership inspirational-life progress
The power to question is the basis of all human progress. Indira Gandhi
leadership responsibility work-out
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. Mao Zedong
leadership next ibm
The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership. Lou Gerstner
leadership practice people
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? Lou Gerstner
leadership powerful rewards
The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture. Lou Gerstner
leadership great-things happens
Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below. John Gardner
leadership patriotism born
I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American. John F. Kennedy
leadership adventure space
The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space. John F. Kennedy
leadership courage patriotic
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten. John F. Kennedy
leadership country adversity
Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness. John F. Kennedy
leadership trying way
The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field. Jonah Lehrer