Quotes About Leadership

We too are yoked to One who is trained. Our only task is to keep in step with him. He chooses the direction and leads the way. As we walk step by step with him, we soon discover that we have lost the crushing burden of needing to take care of ourselves and get our own way, and we discover that the burden is indeed light. We come into the joyful, simple life of hearing and obeying.

The five of us are the big brains supposedly in charge of Hell. Really, we're a bunch of second-rate mechanics trying to keep the wheels from coming off a burning gasoline truck skidding toward a school bus full of orphans and kittens.

You sent one of your own people to get his ass kicked? That's not the way to build brand loyalty.

The Bad Dad thing usually works. Hellions are big on pecking orders and I have to remind them regularly who's at the top. Now they need a pat on the head from Good Dad before things go all Hansel and Gretel and I end up in the oven.

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

George Bernard Shaw lo expresó a la perfección: «El hombre sensato se adapta al mundo. El hombre insensato insiste en intentar que el mundo se adapte a él. Por lo tanto, todo el progreso depende de hombres insensatos».

Un gerente liberador debe ser por completo honesto con su gente; debe apoyarla, ser amistoso y también muy exigente.

star business has two attributes: ? it is the leader in its market niche; and ? the market niche is growing fast, at least 10 per cent a year.

Who you work for is more important than what you do

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

I see the people that do the real work, and what in a way is really sad is that the people that are often the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better don't really have the ambition and ego to be a leader—they don't see any interest in the rewards, they don't care if their names ever appear in the press, they actually enjoy the process of helping others, they are truly in the moment.

The priest should treat those whom he rules as a father treats very young children. We are not disturbed by children's insults or blows or tears; nor do we think much of their laughter and approval.

low expectations are corrosive to a democratic system.

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I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down.

Not many men ever saw Washington disturbed by bad news; it was much more likely to have the opposite effect on him, acting like a goad that brought out the best in his character, stiffening his resolve to win against odds that would have defeated a less resolute man before he began.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook.