Leadership
693 quotes: 53 by Keith Craft, 640 from other voices.
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- Example is always more efficacious than precept.
- Example is leadership.
- Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
- Example is more powerful than precept.
- Example is not the main thing in influencing others . It is the only thing.
- Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
- Example isn’t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
- Executives do many things in addition to making decisions. But only executives make decisions.
- Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.Warren BennisCommonly attributed
- Fairness is giving all people the treatment they earn and deserve. It doesn’t mean treating everyone alike.
- Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision.
- Fear is a bad guardian of a thing that requires to last, while, on the other hand, affection is faithful to the end.
- Feedback is the Breakfast of Champions.
- Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion.
- Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible, and some time after the offence, rather than at the time.
- First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
- Followers are willing followers when they know that their leader is a person with a definite chief aim who has the courage to back up that purpose with action.
- Followers tell you what you want to hear. Leaders tell you what you need to hear.
- For appreciation a man will do what money could not hire him to do.
- For he who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
- Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
- Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.
- Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.
- Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better.
- Good books are a good influence. Good art is a good influence. Prayer is an influence as well. But the strongest influence is the example of a good life.
- Good example always brings forth good fruits.
- Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
- Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
- Great companies don't hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them.
- Great groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.
- Great leaders are always out front with a banner, instead of behind with a whip.John WoodenCommonly attributed
- Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.
- Great leaders know that listening to others is much more important than asserting their authority. Quiet your thoughts and listen to others with an open mind.
- Great leaders take much responsibility and little credit.
- Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
- Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
- Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate.
- Have courage – raw courage – to stand up and speak up for those left out and left behind.