Quotes by Subject: Leadership
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Where there is not vision, the people perish. | |||
You know how I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do. | |||
A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you. He makes you get more out of yourself. And once you learn how good you really are, you never settle for playing anything less than your very best. | |||
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. | |||
To lead the people, walk behind them. | |||
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. | |||
There are two levers for moving men: interest and fear. | |||
If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends. | |||
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. | |||
Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them. | |||
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. | |||
I don't want any yes-man around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. | |||
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making excuses, that's the day you start your move to the top. | |||
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. | |||
The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. | |||
If people are coming to work excited . . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly . . . if they're having fun . . . if they're concentrating on doing things, rather than preparing reports and going to meetings - then somewhere you have leaders. | |||
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. | |||
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled subordinates, then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny. | |||
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. | |||
When he reached the New World, Cortes burned his ships. As a result his crew was well motivated. | |||
If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin somebody else's dog around. | |||
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat: situation excellent. I am attacking. | |||
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means. | |||
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood, and probably themselves will not be realized. | |||
Command is lonely. | |||
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. | |||
Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission. | |||
Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing. | |||
Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds. | * | ||
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. | |||
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. | |||
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. | |||
Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it: Spend time with your families. Corollary: surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. | |||
Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball. | |||
No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. | |||
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. | |||
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. | * | ||
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. | |||
There are only two options regarding commitment; you're either in or you're out. There's no such thing as life in-between. | * | ||
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. | |||
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. | |||
Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be. | |||
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. | |||
We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are. | |||
Where there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate. | * | ||
If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time. | |||
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. | |||
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune. | |||
May God defend me from my friends, I can defend myself from my enimies. | |||
I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like. | |||
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. | |||
When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing. | |||
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. | |||
Causing the right amount of trouble is an art form. | * | ||
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