Leadership
693 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 640 from other voices.
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- Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young men, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.
- That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.
- That man is great who can use the brains of others to carry on his work.
- That man is great who rises to the emergencies of the occasion, and becomes master of the situation.
- That which we are we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.
- The ability for a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people can pull together as a team.
- The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
- The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
- The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
- The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
- The best help is not to bear the troubles of others for them, but to inspire them with courage and energy to bear their burdens for themselves and meet the difficulties of life bravely.
- The best leaders are servants at heart.
- The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.
- The best minute you spend is the one you invest in people.
- The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
- The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.
- The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail.
- The Boss is he who demands of himself more than he demands of all the rest of his people.
- The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
- The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
- The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
- The courage of the soldiers depends upon the wisdom of the general.
- 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.
- The difference between a successful coach and a great coach is the ability to inspire and empower their players.John WoodenCommonly attributed
- The duty of a leader is to serve their people, not for the people to serve them.
- The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
- The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate.
- The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity—an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
- The fault is in the system and not in the men.Peter F. DruckerSourced
- The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. ... The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
- The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.
- The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
- The first person we must examine is ourselves.
- The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader.
- The folks on the front lines—the ones who actually talk to the customer—are the only ones who really know what's going on out there.
- The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- The great manager is the man who knows how to surround himself with men much abler than himself... He who will succeed is not a specialist, excepting so far as it is his special function to understand the human machine.
- The greatest danger to most organizations is not external threats, but internal weaknesses.
- The greatest influence for good in the world is by means of personal example rather than through admonition and exhortation.
- The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.