Quotes on Leadership

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Earn your leadership every day.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Leadership is not about you; it's about investing in the growth of others.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for popular support by promises of material gain. We cannot make peace by mere appeal to greed. We must give the peoples of the world something to live for as well as something to live on.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.