Leadership Quotations | Page 3

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.

I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Digitas is a company that's very rapidly changing - the digital world changes every day. It's important we hire people who are curious about what's going on and who are willing to learn and want to learn. I look for core leadership traits.

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.

We all know business financial performance improves when more women are in senior levels of management and leadership.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

When you look at a Congress that has an 84 percent disapproval rating, that means that for the most part, the people of this country, and certainly California, are looking for new leadership.

I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against.

Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

On the monetization front, our strengthening leadership in internet user base and broadening reach of our platform have already positioned us as a must-buy platform in online video for brand advertisers to reach a nationwide audience within China.

John Edwards makes us all proud to be Americans, and those of us from North Carolina are even more proud to claim him, for he represents the best that we can offer America at a time when strong, positive leadership is needed.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Large companies are not going to disappear. Multinational companies with tens of thousands of employees are not going to disappear. In fact, many of them are getting larger because they can benefit from economies of scale.

At IBM, if we kept our same leadership for 36 years, we'd be bankrupt.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.

In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.

There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You're serving people and submitting to God as best you can.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue that's going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and leadership.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

Having served in the Nixon Administration, I am well aware of how the political leadership of an administration can try to politicize the civil service, including law enforcement.

Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.