Quotes About Leadership

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

I let the other guys handle the talking. I love playing.

Love is leading. People think it has to be two different roles but it is the same.

We love your adherence to democratic principles and to democratic processes.

If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined.

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.

Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

We love those who can lead us to a place we will never reach without them.

It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army.

Take away what we love, wed all be Joe Paterno.

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.

I played sports in high school and in college.

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football.

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.

There were old firemasters and bad firemasters; there were no old bad firemasters

If you are looking to build a new culture or transform the one you have, the first questions you should ask yourself are, "What do we stand for?" and "What do we want to be known for?

Serve Them—A great leader once said, the higher you get in an organization the more it is your duty to serve the people below you rather than having the people below serve you. The key is to serve their growth, their future, their career, and their spirits so they enjoy work, life, and being on your bus.

one negative teammate can sabotage a team. One person can't make a team but one person can break a team.

To build a winning team you must create a positive culture where negativity can't breed and grow, and the sooner you start weeding it from your team the stronger and more positively contagious your culture and team will be.

You must spend more time on building your culture than on everything else. Culture is what produces wins over time.