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Quotes About Leadership

I can't make every decision for you. I don't have 14 timeouts. You guys got to get together and talk
~ Gregg Popovich
While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart.
~ Ken Mehlman
To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.
~ Charles Kennedy
There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
~ Duke Ellington
William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.
~ Terry Pratchett
Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of "communityship.
~ Henry Mintzberg
Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.
~ Casey Stengel
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.
~ John Huston
Morale in an organization does not mean that "people get along together"; the test is performance not conformance.
~ Peter Drucker
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
~ Jesse Jackson
It's all about putting the best team together - not just in the front office but the players on the field.
~ John Elway
You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.
~ Robert Crandall
No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.
~ Matt Cameron
Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.
~ Jack Welch
A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.
~ John Kasich
If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.
~ Ruhollah Khomeini
One of the things I keep reminding players is that when you're lost in a fog, you must stick together. Then you don't get lost. If there's a secret about Liverpool, that's it.
~ Bob Paisley
If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.
~ Henry Cloud
The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone.
~ Leonard Sweet
When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not apart.
~ Nainoa Thompson
A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.
~ Phil Jackson
What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.
~ Sam Walton
Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.
~ Martin Heidegger