Quotes About Leadership

Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done.

Design can also be used to invent strategic futures, make complex decisions, and craft a bold corporate vision. We need to move design up the ladder of influence.

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them

The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.

If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.

There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.

Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

You can't get out-fought and out-desired. I don't want to see that again. I won't tolerate less than 100 percent desire. I'm their manager, not their babysitter.

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

If your desire is to be successful or to make a positive impact on your world, you need to become a person of influence.

A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

Policy changes like what you desire come from our politicians. So let them know what you think.

I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?