Quotes About Leadership

People will give you the responsibility, even the authority, to go after the big things, the visionary things, the reaching for incredible opportunities, if they trust that you're running a city well. And if you don't run a city well, conversely, you can't do the big things.

Ideally, the ITU must be made up of truly visionary leaders - those willing to do the hard work to get critical spectrum bands realigned and put to their highest use.

The role of a coach is varied. We have many tasks. To be a visionary that always looks a little bit towards the future: How should the team develop? How should it play at a tournament? Of course you also have to be the contact person for the players, where social competence also plays a role.

General Sheryl Gordon is a trailblazer and visionary leader.

In tech in particular, everyone is so serious all the time and has these grand visions.

I'm trying to transmit the visions of creativity and build institutions that are incredibly catalytic to their fields.

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Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness among those to whom he's pulled himself up. Between them he's likely to be subjected to a lot of petty annoyances. But he's in the fix of a dog with fleas who's chasing a rabbit -- if he stops to snap at the tickling on his tail, he's going to lose his game dinner.

The great secret of good management is to be more alert to prevent a man's going wrong than eager to punish him for it.

Few women are able to relax in the classic executive pose, mainly because too few women are executives.

no one had ever let them think that initiative was acceptable behavior.

Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.

It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Nat Glover (Jacksonville Sheriff 1995-2003). I appointed him patrolman when I was mayor. In 1965, we had a segregated police department. A black officer could not arrest a white person. When the black officers were recruited, they had their own precinct over on the west side of LaVilla and were given passed down uniforms.

all of us are shepherded whether we realize it or not. Your shepherd might not be Jesus. But something is going to lead you.

I am the state.

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.