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Quotes About Leadership

As an owner, or an owner in training, you must always be alert for the telltale signs that here is a candidate for promotion and delegation.
~ Felix Dennis
Not everyone works to get rich. In fact, most people do not. But almost everyone wishes to be respected. With promotion comes respect. And with delegation comes promotion. If your company is young and a bit rickety, meritocracy, delegation and promotion are the bricks and mortar that will make it stronger. Do
~ Felix Dennis
Employees respect a boss who knows the difference between the mundane and the exceptional. Remember that not all employees respond well to incentive bonuses or a dangled carrot of any kind. They seek recognition, not bribery. 7.
~ Felix Dennis
Just imagine getting rich while you're helping others to help you get richer and prove their worth in the process. Magic! It
~ Felix Dennis
Instead of attempting to stay in day-to-day control, I have devised a system where I keep overall control, but do not involve myself in running a business unless I wish to get involved for a particular reason. I use the power of veto instead. By
~ Felix Dennis
Bossy people and glory hounds are mostly interested in building a power base so they can have yet more people to boss about. It's pitiful and a little sad, but we have all seen it. We saw it in school. We saw it in the playground. We saw it in college. And we saw it in our first job. If you are observant, you have been seeing it nearly all your life. Such
~ Felix Dennis
many managers attempt to reach their targets simply by cutting costs. This can be fatal. Any fool can cut costs anywhere at any time.
~ Felix Dennis
Do not seek a replica of yourself to delegate to, or to promote. Watch out for this, it is a common error with people setting out to build a company.
~ Felix Dennis
There were some smart young boys and girls there, and they grew used to my peripatetic absences. In the interim, they would 'delegate' the work to themselves and often keep those responsibilities when I returned. Yes, I think that was how it happened. It
~ Felix Dennis
Absentee landlords never prosper. I am not absent. But I am not exactly toiling with the troops side by side, every minute of every day.
~ Felix Dennis
If you want to get rich, then learn to delegate. Don't learn to pretend to delegate. Delegation is not only a powerful tool, it is the only way to maximise and truly incentivise your most precious asset – the people who work for you. Real delegation can help make you rich. But only if you work at it.
~ Felix Dennis
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
~ Felix Frankfurter
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
~ Felix Frankfurter
Bambi was inspired, and said trembling, "There is Another who is over us all, over us and over Him.
~ Felix Salten
My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, situation excellent, I am attacking.
~ Ferdinand Foch
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
~ Ferdinand Marcos
Averile nu te fac bogat, ci-Å£i sporesc grijile; nu te fac st?pân, ci v?taf. Mai mulÅ£i sunt cei st?pâniÅ£i de bog??ii, decât cei ce le st?pânesc.
~ Fernando de Rojas
Despite the popularity of the leadership industry, a real competence in building and leading teams is uncommon, and there isn't a generally accepted way to teach these competencies.
~ Fernando Flores
Conversations for Action: Moves for Coordination
~ Fernando Flores
People who fail to manage their moods exhibit a lack of respect for their teammates.
~ Fernando Flores
Política não é apenas ideal, é caminho para se aproximar do ideal
~ Fernando Henrique Cardoso
advocated a blend of free-market reform and social responsibility, much like leaders such as Felipe González, the successful prime minister of Spain. Our party symbol was the toucan, the colorful Brazilian parrotlike bird with a giant beak, and we became popularly known as the tucanos.
~ Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Nada tan admirable como arriesgarse a criticar a los que mandan y a los que matan
~ Fernando Savater
Ley 1 de Colombia: Todo gobernante que se va le deja un desastre aumentado al que llega. Ley 2: Todo gobernante que llega es más bellaco que el que se va.
~ Fernando Vallejo