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Quotes About Leadership

The world says, "Push to the front of the line!" Jesus says, "Go to the back of the line." The world says, "Brand yourself and blast your accomplishments all over social media!" Jesus says, "If you want to be great you have to first learn to serve.
~ Lisa Harper
Taking you to the shower. Me Tarzan, You Jane. Do as I say.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
Those guys are power trippers of the first order. That's why Donald Trump is the way he is. It's not the money, it's the ownership of the planet.
~ Lisa Scottoline
You can't stay on track when your own government is derailing you
~ Lisa Scottoline
Model communes are the ones where the leaders lie the best and the biggest.
~ Lisa See
It is always better to let them (shaman and priest) take credit for a good outcome. Do you understand?
~ Lisa See
First you were the kid, no one taking you seriously. And then, all of a sudden, people much younger were in positions of authority, and you were supposed to listen to them. It was truly weird.
~ Lisa Unger
And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.
~ Lisi Harrison
A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.
~ Lisi Harrison
Point! -Alicia
~ Lisi Harrison
Lisi Harrison
~ Ah-ma-zing!
It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.
~ Lloyd Alexander
And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
~ Lloyd Alexander
A grower of turnups Or shaper of clay, a commot Farmer or a king-Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Until the thirst for power parched his throat, he was a fearless and noble lord.
~ Lloyd Alexander
The Receiver was the most important Elder. Jonas had never even seen him, that he knew of; someone in a position of such importance lived and worked alone.
~ Lois Lowry
Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
If only one didn't know that at the secret heart of all such organizations, corporations and governments alike, it still came down to a finite number of fallible people talking to each other . . . ?
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
There's all of us adults, and one of him. We ought to be able to keep up. Why do I feel like he has us outnumbered and surrounded?
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles leaned forward and spoke earnestly into the secure holovid recorder. I just want you to know, Gregor, that if the planet melts down over all this, it wasn't my fault. The trip-wire was laid long before I stumbled across it.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I was so afraid for you, I forgot to be afraid for your enemies. I should have remembered. Dear Captain.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Once you had delegated the best people to do a job for you, you had to trust both them and your judgment. What
~ Lois McMaster Bujold