Warren G Quotes

We need citizens who are less concerned about what their government can do for them, and more concerned about what they can do for the nation.

I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.

Every student has the ability to be a successful learner.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

Treat your friend as if he will one day be your enemy, and your enemy as if he will one day be your friend

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

Less government in business and more business in government.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

I knew that this job would be too much for me.

The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man.

There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock.

Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.

Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity

He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.

Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.

Understand stakeholder symmetry: Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders.

Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.

I hurt with the insatiate longing, until I feel that there will never be any relief until I take a long, deep, wild draught on your lips.

Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life

Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part

One of the qualities that all the leaders have is a voracious appetite to learn whatever they do not as yet know and understand, coupled with an openness to new experiences.

Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.

I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.

The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

Don't over-react to the trouble makers.

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !.