Leadership Quotes - Page 7

The very meaning of a leader is that people must follow him. If no one follows, you cannot be a leader even if you are the most intelligent, powerful and wealthy person in the world. Interestingly, you cannot become powerful or wealthy unless you are a leader. Further, anyone who acquires wealth or power automatically becomes a leader as people tend to follow such people.

The knowledge of the worker is often called ‘skill’, for it requires manual dexterity and training. The knowledge of the manager is ‘academic’ as it can be taught in colleges and universities. However, the knowledge of the leader is ‘creative’ which can generally not be taught, and must come from within.

I would rather be on the team of the Leader who prays to God for wisdom to guide the followers, than to be on the team of the leader who leads without prayer.

Ellen J. Barrier

A great leader is almost always a great follower for he knows what to learn and from whom.

A leader is one who travels the path carved out by him, and he ‘leads’ himself onward on that path. If his path is good and his goals are desirable, many more may follow him in their desire to achieve the same goal. Hence, followership is the effect of leadership and not its cause.

You do not become a leader because people follow you. Rather, people tend to follow you because you have leadership qualities. The journey of leadership often starts alone.

A leader is generally not more virtuous than most ordinary people. The opposite is usually true. Because people are reluctant to be led by those perceived as evil, a leader expertly creates a façade, behind which he hides all that may appear dirty. This is a difficult art where the leader has to wear two masks, one in public and the other in private—and no one should see the true face of a leader.

The actions of a leader are always criticised by scholars as well as common men. A scholar has no obligation to produce result, so he is free to rebuke leaders for not sticking to noble means. Common men envy leaders their position and power, thus feeling happy in vilifying them to pull them down to their own levels.

A leader cannot avoid being hated. This hatred is directly proportional to his influence and power. A person who does not wish to be hated should avoid leadership roles.

A leader is criticised for whatever he does as all his actions benefit some and adversely affect others. When other people commit the same mistake, they can be forgiven or ignored, but never a leader, for his actions affect a large number of people.

Hatred is very powerful. It can overpower love. When a man burns in the fire of hatred, he cannot feel any love, and is willing to destroy his enemy even if it kills him. It is amazing to note that a leader who may be driven to act against another in hatred, may be showered with love in the process. People who share his hatred may love him for rising up to the challenge.

People don’t need you to fix them, they are not broken, just serve them.

There is a leader in every manager, there is not a manager in every leader.

If you can lead yourself when nobody is following, people will follow when you are not leading

The relational leader operates not by being known by everyone, but by authentically creating positive relationships with people around her.

Scott K. Edinger

Lead by Example,not by showing samples

He hadn’t asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right.

Description before prescription is the trait of a leader!!!

Santosh Adbhut Kumar

He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and inquiry, of vibrant institution that played informal but important roles in the broader life of the nation, from science to literature.

We must be present enough and receptive enough to “hear” with our whole being beyond just the words that are being spoken.

Henry Kimsey-House

When a leader is at their limit the last thing they want to hear is that they need to change even more. Maintaining good rhythms of rest, exercise and fun create more energy for a leader to be willing and open for change.

Anything that needlessly robs you of your time, energy, and other precious resources is destructive to you and your leadership.

A leader who is confused about the route sows doubt.

One presidential advisor to another: "If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.

Every great leader has incredible odds to overcome.

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

Patrick O'Brian

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

We are lost, but we're making good time.

The future you build for yourself is only as limited as your imagination and a undisciplined goal orientated mind.

Donavan Nelson Butler

Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y’s who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously.

Kevin Kelly DO the pursuit of xceptional execution

In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.

Kevin Kelly DO the pursuit of xceptional execution

My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq

Kevin Kelly DO the pursuit of xceptional execution

Willingness to learn is important, willingness to act on what you learn is critical.

Kevin Kelly DO the pursuit of xcdeptional execution

The challenge for the entrepreneur is to find your passion and make fear history.

Kevin Kelly DO the pursuit of xcdeptional execution

Sometimes you live life, and sometimes life happens to you. But you always get to choose what you do about it.” Devon Brooks

Kevin Kelly DO the pursuit of xcdeptional execution

Without growth, organizations struggle to add talented people. Without talented people, organizations struggle to grow.

There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.

Biz Stone

Entrepreneur, your either raising the bar of excellence or your exhaling at the bar which is expensive.

You will never see an eagle of distinction flying low with pigeons of mediocrity.

Start local, think global & constantly raise the bar of excellence.

Branding is not just a product, it's also a way of life, an idea, branding is actually leadership.

Africa is crying out for entrepreneurial leaders & for leaders who are entrepreneurial.

Not having a recognised brand & trying to stand out in the market is like going to the market without any goods.

When you walk in silence your excellence will always speak for you.

The day you wake up thinking the world is yours is the day you start living.

Groves, with his eye for sizing up people who could get things done, saw the deep ambition Oppenheimer covered with his surface charm.

Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether spiritual nature, is worldly and has no place in the Christian community; indeed, it poisons the Christianity community.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

George Friedman

You want to know the great thing about today, it doesn't care about what you did or didn't do yesterday or what you're going to do tomorrow, it only cares about what you do right now.

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.

George Friedman

Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team.

Cheryl A. Bachelder

At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

At the end of the day let there be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

Entrepreneur, you are your brand. Your website, business card, speech and how you walk and talk is your brand.

A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles

Your distinction shouldn't be measured by your duration but rather, your donation.

Yes, content is king but excellence is his queen. ~ Onyi Anyado.

You have to grab the goal, visualise your vision, excel in excellence and then become distinct in distinction.

The call of distinction cannot be heard by the average, neither can the vision of distinction be seen by the eyes of the mediocre.

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