Quotes About Leadership

Almost seventy-five percent of our leaders have come right out of Willow. These are people who have proven their character, competence, and chemistry fit while serving in volunteer positions within our ministry.

If you're a serious-minded leader, you will read.

You are the light of the world.

You would think there is a higher bar than having a Facebook page to run for president.

It is not a surprise that a person would want to be a prophet. What's ridiculous is that other people let him.

Faced with our addiction to oil, what does our leadership say? Get more of it! Strange when you consider their answer to drug dependence is to cut off the supply.

We were asked to do very little, and we responded. That's the bargain we tacitly make with our presidents: we won't ask too much of you, if you don't ask too much of us.

The point is, a leader does what he thinks is right, not what he thinks the popular thing is.

say that evil happens when good men do nothing. And the Democrats prove it also happens when mediocre people do nothing.

Top people can function with many styles and in many environments. They have the ability and sensibility to listen. But the number-one factor that sets them apart from the pack is an aura of energy and actual energy. All high-powered executives have that.

Those who insist we band together tend to see themselves in charge.

An election is just a romance writ large, with an entire community, rather than a single woman, as the object of one's pursuit.

When I asked a Big Dog friend of mine whether it was important to sell up through an organization and obtain consensus along the way, he chuckled, and with a low growl said, "That would be a colossal waste of time—find the 'man,' set up the meeting and do the deal!

The key to success is playing to people's strengths.

In order to build a cohesive unit, it helps to start with great players.

Any man can do what Mahomet did. For he preformed miracles and was not foretold. No man can do what Christ did.

We do not choose as captain of a ship the most highly born of those aboard.

Goering's on the phone to Freiburg - Says, Willie's done quite a job - Hitler's on the phone from Berlin - Says, I'm gonna make you a STAR!

If there's one thing that every founder and leader in this book has in common with the others, it is a passion for what their companies do. They love it, and they have a burning desire to share it with other people. They thrive on the joy of contributing something great and unique to the world.

Second, the leaders had overcome the enormous pressures on successful companies to take paths they had not chosen and did not necessarily want to follow. The people in charge had remained in control, or had regained control, by doing a lot of soul searching, rejecting a lot of well-intentioned advice, charting their own course, and building the kind of business they wanted to live in, rather than accommodating themselves to a business shaped by outside forces.

First, the process will lead you to look for and adopt better business practices, as Ray Pagano did.

Fourth, they cultivated exceptionally intimate relationships with customers and suppliers, based on personal contact, one-on-one interaction, and mutual commitment to delivering on promises. The leaders themselves took the lead in this regard. They were highly accessible and absolutely committed to retaining the human dimension of the relationships.

Keeping the team small also relieved Maytag of some management chores. New people who weren't working out didn't have to be fired. They would leave of their own accord. They simply couldn't last in a small group of people without the support of their peers. Conversely, those who meshed with the culture were embraced by the group and given more responsibility, with Maytag scarcely having to say a word.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.