Quotes About Leadership

Global vision, local win.

I know nothing about technology.

They're talking about Kobe and how great it is that he's playing with the team. Well, isn't that what you're supposed to do? Now he's the savior because he's playing that way? He's no god. He does what he's supposed to be doing, which is what we learned in kindergarten. Share the ball and play. And that's what we do better than they do

The most common cause of plans going wrong and operations collapsing can usually be traced to a communication breakdown. The secret to management success, in peace or war, is to explain strategy in clear terms, and to listen. Acquire those two skills, and fate will be kind.

I don't wanna be a product of my environment; I want my environment to be a product of me.

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.

A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.

retiring with the officer's equivalent of a general

The questions Wile E. Coyote—and all business leaders—must ask themselves are these: How has my environment changed? How soon must I stop doing what I have been doing? And how do I change course?

LEAD LIKE YOU'RE RIGHT, BUT LISTEN LIKE YOU'RE WRONG

The first key to leadership is self-control.

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.

Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.

You may conquer an army with superior tactics and men, but you can conquer a nation only by conquering the hearts of the people.

In probably the first law of its kind anywhere in the world, Genghis Khan decreed complete and total religious freedom for everyone.

Genghis Khan warned them against the pursuit of a "colorful" life with material frivolities and wasteful pleasures. "It will be easy," he explained, "to forget your vision and purpose once you have fine clothes, fast horses, and beautiful women." In that case, "you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.

In one of his most important lessons, he told his sons that conquering an army is not the same as conquering a nation. You may conquer an army with superior tactics and men, but you can conquer a nation only by conquering the hearts of the people.

For the next ten years, until 1251, she and a small group of other women controlled the largest empire in world history.

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.