Quotes About Leadership

Opportunity lies where responsibility has been advocated

That is the nature of our ancestors: immensely courageous hunters, defenders, shepherds, voyagers, inventors, warriors, and founders of cities and states. That is the father you could rescue; the ancestor you could become. And he is to be discovered in the deepest possible place, as that is where you must go if you wish to take full responsibility and become who you could be.

STAND UP STRAIGHT WITH YOUR SHOULDERS BACK

those who avoid their destiny by standing back when asked to step forward also deprive everyone else of the advantages that may have come their way had the person who took the easy way instead determined to be all they could be.

If there is a problem to be solved, and many people involve themselves in the solution, then a hierarchy must and will arise, as those who can do, and those who cannot follow as best they can, often learning to be competent in the process. If the problem is real, then the people who are best at solving the problem at hand should rise to the top. That is not power. It is the authority that properly accompanies ability.

When people wield authority, by contrast, they do so because of their competence—a competence that is spontaneously recognized and appreciated by others, and generally followed willingly, with a certain relief, and with the sense that justice is being served.

Now, power may accompany authority, and perhaps it must. However, and more important, genuine authority constrains the arbitrary exercise of power.

Thus, the position of top dog, when occupied properly, has as one of its fundamental attractions the opportunity to identify deserving individuals at or near the beginning of their professional life, and provide them with the means of productive advancement.

Agreeable people will go along with whoever makes a suggestion, instead of insisting, at least sometimes, on their own way.

If you are a CEO, for example, and you suspect that your treasurer is cooking the books, and you do not investigate because you do not want to know, you may still be liable for your inaction—as is appropriate.

The winners don't take all, but they take most, and the bottom is not a good place to be.

If you are the sort of king who can not stand the fool, then you're a tyrant

conqueror." Genghis Khan's outstanding reproductive

Have some humility. If you cannot bring peace to your household, how dare you try to rule a city?

We are dormant adventurers, lovers, leaders, artists, and rebels, but need to discover that we are all those things by seeing the reflection of such patterns in dramatic and literary form.

la auténtica autoridad constriñe el ejercicio arbitrario del poder.

To adopt authority is to learn that power requires concern and competence—and that it comes at a genuine cost.

NOTICE THAT OPPORTUNITY LURKS WHERE RESPONSIBILITY HAS BEEN ABDICATED

terms of the specifics, you're going to be saying things like: "We're the number-one this … we're the fastest-growing that … we're the foremost experts in this … The chairman of the board, a man named so?and-so, is one of the most astute minds in the entire XYZ industry … He's accomplished X … he's accomplished Y … and he's built this company around one thing above all: [whatever that is].

Democracy is a mess—but it kind of works.

I was elected to lead—not to watch the polls.

There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have to make sure I'm always being professional and not putting any swear words out there - just really putting positive things out there on the Internet.

Friends, we have a hero living among us.

El maldito Bonaparte la embarró al mejor tiempo: expiró su imperio y nos dejó en los cuernos del toro».