Quotes About Leadership

you want to be rich, you need to think independently rather than go along with the crowd.

Organize smart people. Intelligent people are those who work with or hire a person who is more intelligent than they are. When you need advice, make sure you choose your advisor wisely.

focus on developing management skills. The three most important management skills necessary to start your own business are management of: 1.?Cash flow 2.?People 3.?Personal time

3.?Organize smart people.

Remember the golden rule. He who has the gold makes the rules.

Influence other people for good.

Just think of all the great and noble souls who have lived and worked in the world. Isn't it worthwhile to come after them and inherit what they won and taught? And think of all the great people in the world today! Isn't it worthwhile to think we can share their inspiration? And the, all the great souls that will come in the future? Isn't it worthwhile to work a little and prepare the way for them-make just one step in their path easier? - Anne Shirley

Elizabeth saw that in politics, problems are rarely solved; they are only replaced by other, more pressing ones.

She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs...And she does it while smiling the whole time. It's kind of a joke, but then again it's not, especially if you're a male pro trailing in her wake. To have this woman in the middle of such a suffer fest out there crushing people and smiling all the way...

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Then there's the sex business. For example, there are persistent rumors that Bush has girlfriends. Remember that "power is the ultimate aphrodisiac," look at Barbara, and there are three possibilities: George is a normal male attracted to younger women and he cheats; George chooses to have sex exclusively with a woman who looks like a Hallmark greeting card grandmother; George is a eunuch. Think about it—which George would you want running the country?

is more process- than results-oriented. We haven't seen the ability to pull through results. He is more knowledgeable than others but doesn't perform. His people standards are not high enough, and he isn't demanding. His leadership skills are underdeveloped. Make sure he gets some help.

is responsive, not proactive. Give him candid feedback. He doesn't show the passion for the role we need.

Sometimes there's no way around it—you have to let people go. But again you do it as constructively as you can.

An environment of fast growth can cover a multitude of sins, but an era of slow growth will magnify every shortcoming of every person in the business, especially the leaders.

Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

Even experienced men were apt to flounder badly in crises if they lacked leadership.

He had seen highly competent men stand as if paralyzed in a crisis, though once someone took command and told them what to do they might perform splendidly.

I'd like to see you think the roof back on that barn," Call said.

He and Augustus had discussed the question of leadership many times. "It ain't complicated," Augustus maintained. "Most men doubt their own abilities. You don't. It's no wonder they want to keep you around. It keeps them from having to worry about failure all the time.

There was no degree of competence that would assure anyone of survival, and no scale that would tell a commander which man would live and which man would die.

no matter how well he worked. It was a little discouraging: the harder he tried to please the Captain, the less the Captain seemed to be pleased.

He was still the captain, but no one had seemed to notice that there was no troop and no war.

He and Augustus had discussed the question of leadership many times. "It ain't complicated," Augustus maintained. "Most men doubt their own abilities.