Quotes About Leadership

Great leaders are folks who are passionate about and confident in the work they do, and they inspire others to do so in the process. Dale

A eloquência de um líder costuma ser parte importante desse processo, mas o essencial é sua visão interior. Ele deve ser capaz de comunicá-la com vigor, mediante palavras ou ações.

For Schwab's personality, his charm, his ability to make people like him, were almost wholly responsible for his extraordinary success; and one of the most delightful factors in his personality was his captivating smile.

Influence requires more intuition than intellect.

Quien pisa con suavidad va lejos".

In short, if you want to improve a person in a certain respect, act as though that particular trait were already one of his or her outstanding characteristics. Shakespeare said, "Assume a virtue, if you have it not." And it might be well to assume and state openly that other people have the virtue you want them to develop. Give them a fine reputation to live up to, and they will make prodigious efforts rather than see you disillusioned.

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves. They will then regard it as their own; they will like it and maybe eat a couple of helpings of it.

This result is as important for the owner of a business as it is for authors and bloggers.

What applies to professionals applies doubly to workers in offices, shops and factories and our families and friends.

I taught President Roosevelt how to handle a car with a lot of unusual gadgets, but he taught me a lot about the fine art of handling people.

Lincoln guardou a carta pois aprendera, por meio de experiências amargas, que críticas duras e reprovações quase nunca geram algo de útil.

And he also lost his fear of individuals and of his superiors.

I can't imagine the pressure you must be under to have the weight of an entire country on your shoulders.

One can, for example, hire mere technical ability in engineering, accountancy, architecture or any other profession at nominal salaries. But the person who has technical knowledge plus the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people – that person is headed for higher earning power.

And that's what true leaders do. They unfold the lives of others and help them reach their God-given potential.

If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.' That is what Schwab did. But what do average people do? The exact opposite. If they don't like a thing, they bawl out their subordinates; if they do like it, they say nothing. As the old couplet says: 'Once I did bad and that I heard ever/Twice I did good, but that I heard never.

Such was the spirit of the immortal Caesar. Why not make it yours, too, as you set out to conquer your fear of audiences? Throw every shred of negative thought into the consuming fires and slam doors of steel upon every escape into the irresolute past.

PRINCIPLE 4 Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.

PRINCIPLE 2 Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.

the person who has technical knowledge plus the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership and to arouse enthusiasm among people—that person is headed for higher earning power.

Schwab says that he was paid this salary largely because of his ability to deal with people.

These investigations revealed that even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15 per cent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 per cent is due to skill in human engineering – to personality and the ability to lead people.

I asked him why he had chosen us over the others. He paused for a moment and then he said: 'I think it was because managers in the other companies spoke on the phone in a cold, business-like manner, which made me feel like just another business transaction. Your voice sounded as if you were glad to hear from me … that you really wanted me to be part of your organization.

Pero el hombre que dispone de conocimientos técnicos más la habilidad de expresar sus ideas, para asumir la dirección, y para despertar entusiasmo entre los demás, esa persona tiene posibilidades de aumentar indefinidamente sus ingresos.