Quotes About Leadership

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All right,' said Pooley, 'as panic is clearly ill-received hereabouts, what do we do?

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.

When the President decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from congress.

Our ability to connect with customers is harder than ever. Carla and Robert show why marketing is no longer 'business as usual,' and it's time that marketing took a broader and more strategic role in leading the charge." —Kathy Button Bell, Chief Marketing Officer, Emerson

Sooner or later the Curse of the Cult blights every group that sets out to attain the heights. They close the circle, form a tight little mutual-admiration society, deify their leader (especially after the leader is dead), despise nonmembers as uninitiated barbarians, flatter themselves that they alone hold "the keys of the kingdom," and turn into spiritual fossils while deluding themselves into thinking that they are High Initiates.

We of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who participated in the decisions on Vietnam acted according to what we thought were the principles and traditions of this nation. We made our decisions in the light of those values. Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why.

Rationality will not save us.

Management is, in the end, the most creative of all the arts—for its medium is human talent itself.

They taught that business leaders had a duty to serve society as well as their shareholders, and that a company could drive for profits and at the same time meet social responsibilities. I think of this in a phrase Walker and Learned might have liked: "There is no contradiction between a soft heart and a hard head." That has been a guiding principle in my life.

He can either act as a judge or a leader….I have always believed in and endeavored to follow the active leadership role as opposed to the passive judicial role.

So I conclude that John Kennedy would have eventually gotten out of Vietnam rather than move more deeply in. I express this judgment now because, in light of it, I must explain how and why we—including Lyndon Johnson—who continued in policy-making roles after President Kennedy's death made the decisions leading to the eventual deployment to Vietnam of half a million U.S. combat troops. Why did we do what we did, and what lessons can be learned from our actions?

It's not easy to pull off the Big Lie and George Bush has failed.

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

If all would play first violin, we could not obtain an orchestra. Therefore esteem every musician in his place.

History shows that where gamers take people, everything else follows. There

Without location, there is no context." And for Apple, without context there will be no leadership.

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.

when the seats of power and authority have been attained there should be no more poetic licence'.

No one manages until he or she has "walked in the shoes" of those being managed.

There are many things one must do when he leads or rules that are painful to do," he said. "You, yourself, when you become king shall find many difficult tasks and you shall have to hurt others and yourself. The throne brings trouble and grief along with the glory.

While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him.