Become a Great Leader: Quotes to Guide You - page 21

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.
 Groucho Marx
The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation .
But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.
 Ron Jaworski
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.
 Billie Jean King
I know how to move between political camps. When everyone in the world hated (Libyan leader Moammar) Gadhafi, I paid him an official visit. It caused an uproar - Lula's visiting the devil!
 Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
 Tim Bishop
We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
Your job as a leader is to try to inspire them to do more work than they've ever done in their life under conditions that they can't imagine.
 Paul Sereno
There is no immigration policy in the US that is permitting what\'s happening. What\'s happening here is happening outside the law, that our leaders do not wish to enforce or acknowledge. And the same thing happened in the UK.
There is no immigration policy in the US that is permitting what's happening. What's happening here is happening outside the law, that our leaders do not wish to enforce or acknowledge. And the same thing happened in the UK.
Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
 Chuck Yeager
When you become a leader, you lose the right to think about yourself.
 Gerald Brooks
The coaching process is unique in how it accomplishes leadership development. The coach works not by providing answers per se but by asking questions through which the leader gains new insights and takes new actions.
 Aubrey Malphurs
Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.
The problem with most leaders today is they don't stand for anything. Leadership implies movement toward something, and convictions provide that direction. If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything
 Don Shula
The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone.
 Leonard Sweet
Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.
A man\'s intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so.
A man's intelligence does not increase as he acquires power. What does increase is the difficulty of telling him so.
 Dominique Sutton
Big thinking precedes great achievement.
 Wilferd Peterson