Quotes About Leadership

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics

I believe effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We are in the education business. Whether in class or on the court, my job was the same: to effectively teach those under my supervision how they could perform to the best of their ability in ways that best served the goals of our team. I believe the same is true for productive leaders in any organization.

Some of those under your supervision will catch on quickly, others not. Understanding that patience is an integral part of good teaching and effective leadership allowed me to accept the varying speeds at which people learn and to accommodate, within reason, those differences. Patience became an asset for me rather than a liability. I came to understand that good things take time.

there is one similarity between a prison guard and a leader: Both have the final word. When a decision is made, it must be accepted by those on your team, or they must be encouraged to find another team.

I told players at UCLA that we, as a team, are like a powerful car. Maybe a Bill Walton or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or Michael Jordan is the big engine, but if one wheel is flat, we're going no place. And if we have brand new tires but the lug nuts are missing, the wheels come off. What good is the powerful engine now? It's no good at all.

what I say about leadership: "You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

I'm very proud of the fact that while all the records were being set at UCLA by our basketball teams, I felt exactly the same way. Family is first. Always. Always.

I prize intensity and fear emotionalism. Consistency in high performance and production is a trademark of effective and successful organizations and those who lead them. Emotionalism destroys consistency. A leader who is ruled by emotions, whose temperament is mercurial, produces a team whose trademark is the roller coaster—ups and downs in performance; unpredictability and un-dependability in effort and concentration; one day good, the next day bad.

I think parenting and coaching or teaching are the same thing. And they are the two most important professions in the world.

Minor details—like pennies—add up. A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

There are no big things, only an accumulation of many little things. Remove enough rivets and the wing falls off. However, it is up to you, the leader, to identify the correct rivets and determine how much attention each will be given. Do this correctly and your organization will survive flying through even the most turbulent competitive storm.

For the strength of the pack is the wolf; and the strength of the wolf is the pack." —Rudyard Kipling

Solid respect without fear is what I was after. I wanted them to believe in themselves without being self-centered, intimidated or naive.

Ultimately, I believe that's what leadership is all about: helping others to achieve their own greatness by helping the organization to succeed.

If at first you don't succeed, just study the life of Abraham Lincoln.

Just us fancy wise-men trying to take on the world.

Jesus came to serve, and He wants you to follow His example.

God is the leader of your team. As you follow Him with all your heart, you will be leading your team in Jesus' steps.

The world has lost faith in American leadership, and the threats are mounting.

I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children.

I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.

There's only room for one dominant female in the McMahon family... and that's me!

Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself.