Become a Great Leader: Quotes to Guide You - page 35

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
 Lee Iacocca
Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
 Larry Bird
I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.
 Don Cooper
There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.
 Rudy Giuliani
I think any player will tell you that individual accomplishments help your ego, but if you don't win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.
 David Robinson
As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.
 Dick Morris
Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to neither the electorate nor the civil service chiefs.
 Derek Wilson
Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.
 Agnes Sligh Turnbull
If you can become the leader you ought to be on the inside, you will be able to become the person you want on the outside. People will want to follow you. And when that happens, you'll be able to tackle anything in this world.
In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.
In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus.
 Robert Heller
George Mitchell was a very good leader, and we were more than satisfied with his leadership. And I know the guys were jealous.
 Barbara Mikulski
More and more leaders around the world are joining the struggle. More and more individuals understand that any abuse of any woman is intolerable.
 Asha-Rose Migiro
There are those who offer themselves as leaders who even play politics with a nomination of our nations chief law enforcement officer, finally, Loretta Lynch will be able to assume the position she has trained her lifetime for.
A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.
Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
 Aaliyah
You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.
 Greg Bear
If leadership is, fundamentally, about serving others, then any one person should be able to move between being a "leader" and a "follower.
 James M Strock
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Dedicate yourself to a core set of values. Without them, you will never be able to find personal fulfillment, and you will never be able to lead effectively.
Dedicate yourself to a core set of values. Without them, you will never be able to find personal fulfillment, and you will never be able to lead effectively.
 Kenneth I. Chenault
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.