“Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.”
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“Leaders who refuse to listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing significant to say.”
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“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.”
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
“Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.”
“Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.”
“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”
“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”
“Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.”
“Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.”
“I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.”
“Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.”
“We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.”
“If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.”
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”
“No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.”
“If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.”
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.”
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
“He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.”
“If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.”
“In fair weather prepare for foul.”
“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”