Become a Great Leader: Quotes to Guide You - page 8

To be a leader you must be able to create positive change.
To be a leader you must be able to create positive change.
Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.
Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.
Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.
I'll never give up on a player regardless of his ability as long as he never gives up on himself. In time he will develop.
 Bear Bryant
Synergism is the simultaneous actions of separate entities which together have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.
 Clay Buchholz
The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.
 Joseph J. Romm
Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.
Faith and initiative rightly combined, remove mountains, barriers and achieve the unheard of and the miraculous.
 Henry Chester
If you can\'t swallow your pride, you can\'t lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.
If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.
 Jack Weatherford
Our [American] leaders are so socialized as to address militarized threats by acting on the basis of a militarized mentality that the deep roots of problems are ignored.
 Richard A. Falk
It seems to me it would be pretty awful if Canadians came to choose political leaders not for their political ideas and actions, but because of their adherence or their devotedness to one faith or another.
 Pierre Trudeau
If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.
 James Goldsmith
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
 Dan Simmons
Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it's been protected by our men and women in uniform - people who believed so deeply in America, they were willing to give their lives for it.
Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.
 Nikki Sixx
A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.
 Lou Gerstner
They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
 Chinua Achebe
As far as I\'m concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
 Tom Peters
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.