Quotes About Leadership

It's all about energy, George. What's been missing is enthusiasm. The most successful teams have it; every team wants it but very few have it. And it starts with you. When you have it, they'll have it. When you get energized, they'll get energized. So it's time to take your energy meter to the next level. Are you ready, George?

Enthusiasm is important. But love is the answer. To really, really, and I mean really, tap the power of your heart and lead with positive, contagious energy you must love your passengers. You've got to become a Love Magnet," she said.

People are always buying you and your energy. The simple truth is that when you are excited people get excited about where your bus is going and this makes them want to get on and stay on your bus.

As a leader, it is so important that your words equal your actions. It is imperative that you make sure that you go through a self-evaluation process on an almost daily basis to make sure that your actions are in line with your words. You must do what you say and say what you do.

To run a successful organization," I say, "you must learn to manage people's energy, including your own.

The character you possess during the drought is what your team will remember during the harvest.

It is the culture you create that is going to determine whether your players perform and execute.

Driving a positive, high-performing culture requires more than words. After all, everyone has a mission statement, but only the great organizations also have people who are on a mission.

Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States.

The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.

If you don't establish your dominance, you're not making life easier for the dog, you're condemning him to a life of confusion, disappointment, and destructive behavior.

Some of the reasons for this change were obvious: Devon understood that he now had a leader, someone he had to obey. He knew his place in the pack. This seemed to calm him, soothe his anxiety. I think he understood my promise, which I could now make freely and could truly mean: now he could feel my love, relief, and appreciation. Whatever happened, this dog had a home with me.

But the foundation of a good relationship with any dog is a clear line of authority. They're pack animals. You have to help a dog understand exactly where he or she ranks in the pack, and the dog can never be number one.

vision led, customer informed.

Product managers are responsible for articulating a vision for the product and ensuring that those who do build the product are working to achieve that vision.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

I have always held in high regard individuals who informed me that certain behavior or policies were inappropriate. I respect candor. My door is always open for news—good or bad. Many leaders only want to hear the positive. It is dangerous to be employed by such people. Those who never want to hear bad news don't want to know when they are off course.

Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably won't work for you either.

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

Broadly put, philosophers think: politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. That's the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Jackson was a transformative president in part because he had a transcendent personality; other presidents who followed him were not transformative, and served unremarkably.

Leadership meant knowing how to distill complexity into a comprehensible message to reach the hearts as well as the minds of the larger world.