Leadership
693 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 640 from other voices.
Other voices on Leadership
- There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not being driven.
- There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
- Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
- Those who are led should not be driven, and they should be allowed to choose their leader.
- Those who can command themselves, command others.
- Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.
- Those who trust us educate us.
- To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.
- To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
- To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear.
- To lead the people, walk behind them.
- To move people towards excellence, begin to expect excellence and then communicate that.
- Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
- Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.
- Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.
- Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
- Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
- Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.
- Trust has two dimensions: competence and integrity. We will forgive mistakes of competence. Mistakes of integrity are harder to overcome.
- Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital.
- Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
- Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
- Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.Martin Luther King Jr.Sourced
- Victims have big TVs. Leaders own large libraries.
- We all know that a good example is more effective than advice. So set a good example, and it won't take long for others to follow.
- We are all role models to someone in this world, and we can all have an impact, for good.
- We call someone leader not because they are in charge but because they have the courage to go first. To risk first. To trust first. First into the unknown.
- We can often do more for other men by correcting our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
- We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.
- We have to belong to ourselves as much as we need to belong to others.Brené BrownSourced
- We have to prepare the child for the path, not the path for the child.
- We must become good before we can make them good, and wise before we can make them wise.
- We ought to help one another by our advice, and yet more by our good example.
- We pay too much attention to the most confident voices — and too little attention to the most thoughtful ones.
- We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
- What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
- What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
- What the world wants iz good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.
- What you allow, you encourage.
- What you’re going to leave this earth is the influence on others.