Quotes on Leadership

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.

The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Never ask anyone to do what you haven't done before and wouldn't do again. That's a pretty fundamental rule in leadership... treat them like you treat yourself. Things you don't like, they don't like.

The real leader holds the power, not just the position.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

My generation's parents told their children, "Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class." But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

It is the responsibility of leadership and management to give opportunities and put demands on people which enable them to grow as human beings in their work environment.