Leader Quotes - Page 92

Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.

Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.

It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setback. They are champions because they've been hurt. Their experience moved them, and they pulled out this fighting spirit, making them what they are. Sometimes in life, God gives us a difficulty in order to bring out the fighting spirit. Everything that happens to you can happen for good if you have this spirit. The essential thing in life is not in the conquering, but in the fight.

Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

The effectiveness of a leader is best judged by the actions of those he guides.

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.

A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.

Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.

Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.

Remember, Monsieur, that the downfall of most Communities comes from the cowardice of Superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible.

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.