Quotes About Leadership

As I said earlier, for the first several months under Obama, it took a lot of discipline to sit quietly at the table as everyone from the president on down took shots at Bush and his team. Sitting there, I would often think to myself, Am I invisible? During those excoriations, there was never any acknowledgment that I had been an integral part of that earlier team.

we had our hands full with the wars we were already in without looking for new ones.

the worst stress-related health typically occurs in middle management, with its killer combo of high work demands but little autonomy—responsibility without control.

They're in control of the situation; -They're in control of themselves (men); and -They're in control of them (women).

Can you imagine Jesus as boss of a coal mine?

Sobald jemand im dem Rufe steht, ein Napoleon zu sein, gewinnt er auch seine verlorenen Schlachten.

Dabei ist es wahrscheinlich, dass wir großen Geschäftsleute dazu berufen sind, bei der nächsten Wendung der Geschichte die Führung der Massen zu übernehmen, ohne dass wir wissen, ob wir seelisch dazu imstande sein werden!

Ich bin Mitglied einer ministeriellen Konferenz. Bei einer Konferenz bringt jeder vor, was er haben möchte und für das Richtige hält, und zum Schluß ergibt sich etwas daraus, das keiner ganz gewollt hat: eben das Ergebnis.

What distinguishes the successful entrepreneur and promoter from other people is precisely the fact that he does not let himself be guided by what was and is, but arranges his affairs on the ground of his opinion about the future. He sees the past and the present as other people do; but he judges the future in a different way

But it wasn't a Primary. It was hell among the yearlings and the Charge of the Light Brigade and Saturday night in the backroom of Casey's Saloon rolled into one, and when the smoke cleared away not a picture still hung on the walls. And there wasn't any Democratic Party. There was just Willie, with his hair in his eyes, and his shirt sticking to his stomach with sweat. And he had a meat ax in his hand and was screaming for blood.

I may not have proved a great explorer but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success. -Robert Scott-

It was the same in just about every trade. Sooner or later someone decided it needed organizing, and the one thing you could be sure of was that the organizers weren't going to be the people who, by general acknowledgment, were at the top of their craft. They were working too hard. To be fair, it generally wasn't done by the worst, neither. They were working hard, too. They had to.

It was an irony that Rudiger, the anarchist, the man who believed in individualism and the abolition of all political institutions, should be so good at leading a team of fishermen. Rudiger didn't care for teamwork in the abstract.

An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.

If you want to be a leader of people, then you need to be a master of words.

Once a President or congressman is elected, we the taxpayers take care of them for life. I ask myself: If they are qualified to be our leaders, why can't they take care of themselves?

The ability to sell—to communicate to another human being, be it a customer, employee, boss, spouse, or child—is the base skill of personal success.

mentor is someone who has already done what you want to do and is successful at doing it. Don't find an advisor. An advisor is someone who tells you how to do it but may not have personally done it.

Often in the real world, it's not the smart who get ahead, but the bold. Last night, I took a break from writing and watched a TV program on the history of a young man named Alexander Graham Bell.

Rich dad explained to me that the hardest part of running a company is managing people.

Often in the real world, it's not the smart who get ahead, but the bold. In

The real skill is to manage and reward the people who are smarter than you in some technical area. That is why companies have a board of directors.

Mind your business. Don't spend your whole life working for someone else.

To be successful as a B requires: 1.? Ownership or control of systems, and 2.? The ability to lead people.