Quotes About Leadership

But people of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener. For example, when Lyndon B. Johnson was a junior senator from Texas, he kept a sign on his office wall that read, "You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're doin' all the talkin'." And Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-eighth American president, once said, "The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others . . . it is the only thing.

Any time there is change, there is opportunity. So it is paramount that an organization get energized rather than paralyzed.

Livingstone replied, "If you have men who will come only if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come even if there is no road at all." That's what top leaders want from the people working for them: they want individuals who are willing to do what others won't.

leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, they did it." That's

Vision and mission are the head and the heart of people. But values are their soul.

60 percent of all management problems are the result of faulty communications.

Be the change you want to see in the world." —MAHATMA GANDHI

two things are responsible for making leadership rise? The first is competence. No one wants to follow an incompetent leader. The second is values. Values are principles that guide your decisions and behaviors.

6. Focus on Them, Not Yourself: The number one problem of inexperienced speakers and ineffective leaders is that they focus on themselves.

At least once a year I'd ask Steve to point out anything he thought I was doing that was wrong or weaknesses in my leadership that he believed might have me headed for trouble. After a couple of years of this, Steve once said, 'John, you are the most successful person I work with, yet you are the only one who invites critism. Why?' I don't trust anyone with power that can't be checked, I answered. Especially me.

Cuando usted alcanza un nivel de motivación que influencia a otros, puede comenzar a ver un impacto positivo en sus vidas.

Theodore Hesburgh said, "The very essence of leadership is that you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you can articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." An "uncertain trumpet" is usually the result of an individual who either lacks a vision or is trying to lead with someone else's dream. There is a vast difference between a person with a vision and a visionary person.

Para mejorar el equipo, mejore a las personas que lo integran.

el liderazgo es una decisión que usted toma, no un lugar donde usted se sienta. Cualquiera puede escoger ser un líder dondequiera que se encuentre. No importa dónde esté, usted puede marcar una diferencia.

Good leaders will gain in influence beyond their stated position. Bad leaders will shrink their influence down so that it is actually less than what originally came with the position. Remember, a position doesn't make a leader, but a leader can make the position.

Atrévete a soñar, pero por favor también actúa. Porque los soñadores son muchos, pero los hacedores son pocos.15

El liderazgo es una decisión que usted toma, no un lugar donde usted se sienta.

El papel de un líder no es controlar a la gente ni estar pendiente de todo, sino más bien guiar, dinamizar y generar emoción". —Jack Welch

5. Anybody who helps somebody influences a lot of bodies. What you give to one person overflows into the lives of all the people that person impacts. The nature of influence is to multiply.

If you really want to be an uncommon leader, you're going to have to find a way to get much of your vision seen, implemented, and added to by others.

Los juegos los juegan los individuos, pero los campeones son los equipos.

A leader is the one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.