Quotes
Quotes about Leaders
Leaders don't force people to follow-they invite them on a journey. Harold S. Hulbert -Charles S. Lauer.
Great necessities call forth great leaders. -Abigail Adams.
The first step to leadership is servanthood. -John Maxwell.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon.
There are many elements to a campaign.Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. Anthony T. Dadovano -Bernd Brecher.
Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders. [Lat., Incisa notis marmora publicis, Per quae spiritus et vita redit bonis Post mortem ducibus.]
A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. - Guide to Good Leadership.
I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. - "Leadership Is an Art".
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on the more usual (and more exciting) principle of substituting "the good guys" for "the bad guys.".
To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude of all harbingers of dictatorship.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Bad monetary and fiscal policy, often designed by the IMF, is the real cause of global problems. The only explanation for why government leaders continue to follow these policies is that by blaming markets, they avoid blaming themselves.
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice.
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves. The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. â¢Ma-Tsu You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed. â¢Mumon Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. â¢Zen Saying No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. â¢Tilopa When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back. â¢Ying-An There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. â¢Yuan-Wu The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. â¢Robert M. Pirsig Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. â¢Zen Proverb Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
