Leadership
693 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 640 from other voices.
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- Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
- When all think alike, then no one is thinking.
- When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
- When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.
- When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.
- When they see that you love them, and seek their good, they will the more easily trust you.
- When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.
- When we take people merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we improve them as far as they can be improved.
- When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.
- Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.
- Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.
- You are always willing enough to read lives, but never willing to lead them.
- You are the leader you’ve been waiting for.
- You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.
- You can accomplish by kindness what you can not by force.
- You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.
- You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
- You can only make others better by being good yourself.
- You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
- You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.
- You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
- You cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.
- You cannot guide a ship that’s parked.
- You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.
- You cannot make workmen think you are interested in them unless you really are.
- You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
- You cannot talk initiative to others without developing a desire to practice it yourself.
- You don’t need a title to be a leader.
- You don’t win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches.
- You don't win or lose the games bcoz of 11 you select. You win or lose with what those 11 do on the field.
- You encourage people by seeing the good in them.
- You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- You haven’t taught until they’ve learned.
- You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.
- You manage things; you lead people.
- You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
- You must rouse in men a consciousness of their own prudence and strength, if you would raise their character.
- You need to inspect what you expect
- You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
- You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.