Leadership Quotations | Page 2

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

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.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.

Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.

Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Goodrich is a perfect addition to our Hamilton Sundstrand business. And with a strong portfolio of complementary products, Goodrich also brought great leadership balance, great opportunities to provide more integrated systems.

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.

A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparency and integrity, and creates provisions for challenging its leadership openly. A good cult expands the freedoms and well-being of its members rather than limits them.

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

I wasn't a very convenient person for the leadership. I had my own opinion about things and knew how to insist on this.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.

In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.

And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.

I think to be a great quarterback, you have to have a great leadership, great attention to detail, and a relentless competitive nature. And that's what I try to bring to the table, and I have a long way to go. I'm still learning, and I'm still on a constant quest for knowledge.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

Chinese entrepreneurs have to implement their work under the leadership of the Party and the government - it is very clear.

We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?'

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach.

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

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.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical.

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

Projecting weakness will not make us safer or discourage attacks against us. We need to show leadership and strength by demonstrating that we will not tolerate violent acts against our people, and we will not leave our citizens or our interests vulnerable to an attack.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader..