Become a Great Leader: Quotes to Guide You - page 9
I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.
Dan Harmon
The task of a leader is to simplify. You should be able to explain where you need to go in two minutes.
Jeroen van der Veer
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.
Tom Peters
To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes and structures of history and ultimately master them.
James MacGregor Burns
We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.
The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.
What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy.
William E. Rothschild
On foreign affairs, we've already begun enormously productive talks with many foreign leaders, much of it you've covered, to move forward toward stability, security and peace in the most troubled regions of the world, which there are many.
And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see.
Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.
Charles Kennedy
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Without failure there is no achievement.
We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.
Joseph de Maistre
The greatest joy of my is when Jesus moves on my heart and tells me to give to someone.
Johnny Hunt
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.
Bob Ehrlich
My job as a coach was to make something meaningful out of one of the most mundane activities on the planet: playing pro basketball.
Phil Jackson
The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.
Jeff Bezos
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
Leaders need the courage to acknowledge when something isn't working.
Mark Batterson
