To Be A Leader Quotes
Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.
I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.
Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.
Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.
Because to me it is inconceivable that a subordinate leader should not carry out orders given by the leaders of the State.
When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.
One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.
Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.
A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.
To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.
The Big Lie is a major untruth uttered frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency.
I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.
I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got Could see all kinds of things other people could not! So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
The father receives his power from God (and from his own father). The teacher finds the soil already prepared for obedience, and the political leader has only to harvest what has been sown.
It's hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.
Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.
The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.
The most striking thing about highly effective leaders is how little they have in common. What one swears by, another warns against. But one trait stands out: the willingness to risk.
True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience.
Leaders of the world's religions said, 'What do you think about what I teach?' Jesus said, 'Who do you say I am?'(Luke 9:20)
It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.
One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.
The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.
Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'