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Quotes About Leadership

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.
~ Renee Olstead
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in religious institutions almost every day of his adult life but never once told a congregation or gathering there for whom to vote.
~ Rev. Barry W. Lynn
a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.
~ Rex Stout
I know a chairman of the board of a billion-dollar corporation, one of the 2 per cent, who never gets his shoes shined and shaves three times a week.
~ Rex Stout
It stuck out all over him, one of those born-to-command guys. I never invite them to parties.
~ Rex Stout
As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.
~ Rex Stout
A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.
~ Reza Aslan
Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.
~ Reza Aslan
Si eres el dueño de un negocio, el valor de tu negocio aumentará o disminuirá según tu gratitud. Cuanto más agradecimiento sientas por tu negocio, por tus clientes, y por tus empleados, más crecerá y aumentará tu negocio. Cuando los empresarios dejan de estar agradecidos y sustituyen la gratitud por la preocupación, su negocio experimenta un descenso en espiral. Si
~ Rhonda Byrne
Ah, but it was your great-grandmother who went around subjugating half the world. Empress of all I survey, and all that. You must have that quality somewhere in your makeup." "I've never had a change to subjugate anybody yet, so I can't really say," I confessed.
~ Rhys Bowen
Idealistic? Ruddy stupid, if you'll pardon the language, miss,: Mr Roberts said. "All this talk about power for the people and down with the ruling classes and everyone should govern themselves. It can never happen, I told him. The ruling classes are born to rule. They know how to do it. You take a person like you or me and you put us up there to run a country and we'd make a ruddy mess of it.
~ Rhys Bowen
The old man smiled. "It should be perfectly obvious what you have to do. Give women the vote. That will do away with tyrants and dictators instantly. Women will always opt for sensible and compassionate over warlike and corrupt
~ Rhys Bowen
to be the man you have to beat the man and im the man
~ Ric Flair
to be the man, you gotta beat the man, WOO!
~ Ric Flair
To be the man, you gotta beat the man.
~ Ric Flair
The acting CEO cannot be blamed or credited for the company's performance, and that makes the system independent of the CEO. Blame or credit falls on each manager and employee. The CEO should be the quarterback, not God. In a sense, it makes us like Switzerland, where many citizens have a hard time remembering their President's name. Solidarity comes as a consequence of collective action, and not from one personality.
~ Ricardo Semler
On two occasions, the person I had chosen as airplane captain came through as environmental leader in this second exercise. These exercises reinforced my belief that leadership indeed depends on the situation. As circumstances change, leadership must change. A certain set of skills, instincts, and personality traits may be perfect today, but useless tomorrow.
~ Ricardo Semler
Exchanging the old boss for a new boss is not situational leadership. True situational leadership—flexible, effective, evolutionary—can only arise from self-management. And that means that situational leadership doesn't change fundamentally with circumstances. It is always about giving up control.
~ Ricardo Semler
At Semco, you are what you do, not what or whom you control.
~ Ricardo Semler
If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules
~ Ricardo Semler
Este grupo (que inclui supervisores, chefias e diretores) tem uma particularidade unica - é um grupo constituido de profissionais que deixaram de ser empregados, mas não chegaram a virar patroes. Sao os Roberta Close da empresa.
~ Ricardo Semler
Moreover, in my view, obtrusive and intrusive leadership becomes counterproductive by interfering with the free interplay of individual talent and interest.
~ Ricardo Semler
Suenan las voces de los estudiantes que se quejan, como debe ser, de todos los políticos habidos y por haber
~ Ricardo Silva Romero
Sacrificing minions: is there any problem it CAN'T solve?
~ Rich Burlew