Leadership
693 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 640 from other voices.
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- The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
- The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him help himself.
- The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
- The idea that we want to mitigate risk to zero before we act is really common and really costly.
- The influence of the brave man is contagious and creates an epidemic of noble zeal in all about him.
- The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled.
- The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor
- The key to greatness is to look for people's potential and spend time developing it.
- The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.Ken BlanchardCommonly attributed
- The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
- The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader.
- The man who gets the loyalty of his employees is the man who has, first of all, a reputation for fair dealing.
- The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.
- The man who has no enemies has no following.
- The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.Warren BennisSourced
- The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.
- The measure of a man is what he does with power.
- The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
- The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake.
- The more respect you give to others, the more you earn.
- The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born — that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
- The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change.
- The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
- The most important quality in a leader is integrity: doing the right thing even when it’s hard.
- The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.
- The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.
- The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
- The one exclusive sign of a thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
- The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.
- The only thing of real importance that leaders do is to create and manage culture.
- The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.
- The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
- The people are fashioned according to the example of their king; and edicts are of less power than the model which his life exhibits.
- The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
- The price of greatness is responsibility.
- The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
- The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
- The purpose of coaching is to close the gap between potential and performance.
- The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.