Quotes About Leadership

In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

When you become a leader success is all about growing others.

Control your own Destiny or somebody else will

Effective people know when to stop assessing and make a tough call, even without total information. Little is worse than a manager who can't cut bait.

Take every opportunity to inject self-confidence into those who have earned it. Use ample praise, the more specific the better.

Don't lose youself on the way to the top.

No vision is worth the paper it's printed on unless it is communicated constantly and reinforced with rewards.

The mission announces exactly where you are going, and the values describe the behaviors that will get you there.

When you are a leader, your job is to have all the questions. You have to be incredibly comfortable looking like the dumbest person in the room. Every conversation you have about a decision, a proposal, or a piece of market information has to be filled with you saying, "What if?" and "Why not?" and "How come?

Underneath, you would surely see that the best care passionately about their people—about their growth and success. And you would see that they themselves are comfortable in their own skins. They're real, filled with candor and integrity, optimism and humanity.

My admiration for Britannicus grew as I watched the uncomplaining manner in which he accepted the injustice and the inefficiency and inconvenience being heaped upon him by incompetent superiors.

On the news tonight the new President said there's no reason for anyone to worry about the situation. He didn't say which situation.

Not long after we started working for him I asked Bernard if he thought Thatcher was evil,'I said. 'He said it was like asking what jazz is.

Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

No women allowed.' 'I'm not a woman. I'm the boss.

A kingdom needs tending, just like a cheese. Leave a cheese too long and the whey settles to the bottom and sours the whole. Leave a kingdom for too long and others rise to the top and take the whole.

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