Leadership Quotes - Page 5

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

I’m sure the driver was a great guy and all he wanted was to drive me to my hotel—but he was a complete stranger to me and the truth is that being vigilant isn’t a part-time job, it’s not about being nice to people, it’s about reality. I made a terrible mistake once, believing the monsters that want to hurt us are easily labeled and identified, rather than walking and hiding amongst us. That’s my reality.

Tucker Elliot

A properly educated leader, especially when harassed and under pressure, will know from his study of history and the classics that circumstances very much like those he is encountering have occurred from time to time on this earth since the beginning of history. He will avoid the self-indulgent error of seeing himself in a predicament so unprecedented, so unique, as to justify his making an exception to law, custom or morality in favor of himself. The making of such exceptions has been the theme of public life throughout much of our lifetimes. For twenty years, we've been surrounded by gamesmen unable to cope with the wisdom of the ages. They make exceptions to law and custom in favor of themselves because they choose to view ordinary dilemmas as unprecedented crises.

James B. Stockdale

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!

Brené Brown

How can we tell people "never give up" when some haven't even started yet.

Onyi Anyado

The more positive you are the more people want to be around you and the less positive you are...well, just reverse it!

Germany Kent

‪#‎PRAISE‬ ‪#‎CRITICISM‬ ‪#‎NEUTRAL‬If you live off people's compliments..you will soon die of their criticism..

Abha Maryada Banerjee

Leaders are never measured by their success but rather by the success of those they've been entrusted to lead. Therefore, a leader can never be considered successful until those they lead are successful.

Greg Cagle

The manager needs only a molehill to build a mountain, but the money-ger needs a full mountain to build another.

Agona Apell

Leadership is about relationships - whether it’s a business deal with a client or a conversation with a family member - our ability to understand and appreciate individual uniqueness and perspective is paramount to living a fulfilled life.

Steve Knox

A business is an army;you are the general,and your subordinates are your troops.Victory is achieving your goals.Great victory is surpassing your goals.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A good businessman knows how to make a profit. An engineer makes sure it runs well. We need more leaders who are task oriented.

Phil Mitchell

Vision, not need, is what attracts money.

Alin Sav

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

Max McKeown

The reality is that the American people have no desire for an empire. This is not to say that they don't want the benefits, both economic and strategic. It simply means that they don't want to pay the price. Economically, Americans want the growth potential of open markets but not the pains. Politically, they want to have an enormous influence, but not the resentment of the world. Military, they want to be protected from dangers but not to bear the burdens of long-term strategy.

George Friedman

That image of a chessboard — an epic contest between two giant players, carefully nudging their pieces around the globe as part of a grand strategy — has indeed become a familiar metaphor for the Cold War. But it is misleading. Many decisions remembered today for their farsighted, tactical brilliance were denounced in their day as weak-willed. And big, public gestures often made less difference than the small, hidden ones.

Sam Tanenhaus

In carrying out a peacekeeping mission where the grand strategy is to maintain peace and order by persuading armed parties or other hostile elements to back away from aggressive activities, military strength is not a definite measure of success; neither could material contribution alone guarantees the "winning of the hearts and minds" of the people. What appears to be important is the day-to-day conduct of the peacekeepers on the ground; those who uphold the principles of neutrality and impartiality, as well as those who are able to carry all aspects of its operational duties exceptionally.

Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono

Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.

Max McKeown

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

Max McKeown

(John F.) Kennedy was an elitist and not a populist. He was enthralled by a certain British aristocratic view of politics in which an enlightened ruling class makes reasoned, rational decisions that are in the interest of the more emotional and easily manipulated masses.

Scott Farris

A president must know what it is he does not know, and he should remain calm in pursuit of it, but there is no obligation to be honest about it.

George Friedman

Intelligence analysts should be self-conscious about their reasoning processes. They should think about how they make judgments and reach conclusions, not just about the judgments and conclusions themselves.

Richard Heuer

his was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,

David Halberstam

Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".

Paul Gibbons

Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.

Paul Gibbons

Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

Paul Gibbons

Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.

Paul Gibbons

It is time to euthanize change management.

Paul Gibbons

The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.

Paul Gibbons

Our relations seemed poor to me, and I wasn't surprised that the US intelligence picture in the Horn of Africa was weak. Much of what I read consisted of recycled news headlines repackaged as intelligence. Real, valuable intelligence only came from real people, yet we hadn't done much to meet and work with the people.

Eric Greitens

Twitter gives people an illusionary sense of leadership.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Psychology of small things rules.

Stefan Fatsis

Jason (Elam, a Christian) is the kid in high school who gets along equally well with the jocks, the brains, the geeks, and the slackers, and influences their behavior.

Stefan Fatsis

The great actors always play themselves.

Scott Farris

A newcomer could ascertain the identity of a town's true leaders – which storekeeper was respected, which farmer was listened to other farmers – only through endless hours of subtle probing of reticent men.

Robert A. Caro

One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power.

Scott Farris

its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members “could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.

Robert A. Caro

While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men— a great reader of men.

Robert A. Caro

Few emotions are more ephemeral in the political world than gratitude: appreciation for past favors. Far less ephemeral, however, is hope: the hope of future favors. Far less ephemeral is fear, the fear that in the future, favors may be denied.

Robert A. Caro

People fail to realize there's a difference in kinds of money. There is old money and there is new money. Old money has political power but new money has only purchasing power. (1963)

LIFE Magazine

You can't make a difference unless you are different.

Chris Hodges

Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed "his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.

Joseph J. Ellis

The Sun Tzu School (which wrote the Art of War) surely never imagined that their antiwar, pro-empire treatise would become known and accepted after the fall of the first empire as a text on military tactics. Likewise, they would have been surprised to see the Ping-fa military metaphor—an inspired teaching device—come to be seen as the message and not the medium.

David G. Jones

The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational.

Paul Gibbons

To guess is no good, but to anticipate is GREAT.

Filipe Alou

If we can spend more time uprooting vices and rooting virtues, our world will be safer and better.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

What is assertive in a man can appear abrasive in a woman, and female leaders risk appearing too feminine or not feminine enough.

Barbara Kellerman

Observe the behavior of your environment carefully for clues as to what is acceptable and rewarded.

Bonnie Marcus

If you aren't loyal to the few you won't be blessed with the many.

Orrin Woodward

To be given loyalty is to be infused like a gemstone, to be granted the frightful license to destroy not only one's self, but all within one's care.

Brandon Sanderson

You can buy a man's time, you can buy a man's physical presence at a certain place, you can even buy a measured number of skilled muscular motions per hour or day. But you cannot buy enthusiasm, you cannot buy initiative, you cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.

Clarence Francis

Chits knew no ideology.

Rick Perlstein

Most people overestimate others' talents and underestimate their own.

Orrin Woodward

You hire the best people you can possibly find. Then it's up to you to create an environment where great people decide to stay and invest their time.

Rich Lesser

Make sure your priorities line up with your values.

Michael Barbarulo

Your Potential is all that you can HAVE but have not yet possessed. No limits. No boundaries

Fela Durotoye

Your Potential is an OBLIGATION.Its what you MUST be,do and have because you CAN. You Can, you Must, You will

Fela Durotoye

A leader's job is not to put greatness into people, but rather to recognize that it already exists, and to create an environment where that greatness can emerge and grow.

Brad Smith

No man is exempted from the subtle deception of doctrinal drift – the man of God expects this temptation.

Gary Rohrmayer

Our enemy attacks the conscience little by little seeking to wear us down and then wears out a leader's resolve to fight the good fight.

Gary Rohrmayer

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