Quotes About Leadership

in pretending to be brave, to stiffen the others' courage, I found my own courage.

MEFISTÓFELES No, serás tú el que la gane. En esta ocasión serás tú el general en jefe. FAUSTO Esto sería un auténtico timbre de gloria para mí: dar órdenes sobre algo de lo que no entiendo.

aquel que ocupa el primer puesto, rara vez desempeña el papel principal.

Kimi krala, bakan? hükmeder ; kimi bakana da müste?ar?! Bu durumda birinci derecede önem ta??yan ki?i kimdir. ..

Du mußt steigen oder sinken, Du mußt herrschen und gewinnen, Oder dienen und verlieren, Leiden oder triumphieren, Amboß oder Hammer sein.

Si la prudencia pudiese conciliarse con la juventud, si pudiesen existir repúblicas sin virtud alguna, ¡cuán pronto vería el mundo cumplidos sus altos destinos!

A good man apologizes for the mistakes of the past, but a great man corrects them.

Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit geführt.

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

I know very well that we are not and cannot be all equal; but in my opinion he who avoids the common people in order to command their respect, is as culpable as a coward who hides himself from his enemy because he fears defeat.

Budgets may count Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs), but great teams count on people.

The product managers now meet together as a group. They think about what they can accomplish together to meet their group performance. Now

Don't worry about selling the company. If you ask great questions, your interviews will do that for you.

Great managers perform leveraging work—work that allows other people to succeed—rather than perform the actual work itself.

The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

Yet few came so far, so fast, so alone, as Nixon. Not the governor of California or his aides, nor any member of the state's delegation to Congress knew Richard Nixon's name. He was, he would remember, "somebody who was nothing.

The closer he got to succeeding in his presidential campaign, the more Ted Kennedy fumbled.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade And do the other things, Not because they are easy, But because they are hard, Because that goal Will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, Because that challenge Is one that we are willing to accept, One we are unwilling to postpone, And one, Which we intend to win. John F. Kennedy

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.

In the harsh conditions of Arabia it was necessary for leaders and followers to live and work together side by side. Therefore leadership was never hierarchical. A leader was among the people, not over them. p 58

Communication is the sister of leadership

People expect their Leaders to help them to achieve the common task. to build the synergy of teamwork and to respond to individuals and meet their needs

Those occupying leadership roles who completely lack integrity are what we call 'Blind shepherds'. They are not really 'bad' leaders, because they are not leaders at all: they are misleaders.