Quotes About Leadership

In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.

You don't have to be a poet, you don't have to be a politician or be in the White House to make an impact with your words. We all have this capacity to find solutions for the future.

I generally think that I should only speak by action and not by words.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

In school you teach us not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not be greedy. Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? You grownups say you love us, but I challenge you, please, to make your actions reflect your words.

I'm somebody who inspires by his own performances, by the way he conducts himself on and off the field. My discipline... I look to inspire by my actions, not just words.

No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you're just thinking out loud.

It's not just about the words you use, but the way you use them, and the message that puts over. Also your face too and the way you project your message. If you're telling the group to stay calm, be good, and you have beads of sweat dripping down your forehead, you're in trouble.

Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.

Actions speak louder than words, and the best way to set an example is to just go out and do a good job.

When I was director of the CIA, I knew that we had been - and I'm choosing my words very carefully here - effective in our expansion. We really had - expansion of government agencies and expansion of use of contractors. Effective, we were; efficient, we weren't. And so, as director of the CIA, I went after the inefficiencies part.

Quality is everyone's responsibility.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.

Management must manage!

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.