Quotes on Leadership

To add value to others, one must first value others.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.

Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs _x000D_ _x000D_ of those who would be affected by it

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.