Quotes on Leadership

NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

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.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research....if we are to continue to leave practically all important historical research and writing concerning the black race to the white man, then we must be prepared to accept, uncomplainingly, the white man's point of view.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

If you want to coach you have three rules to follow to win. One, surround yourself with people who can't live without football. I've had a lot of them. Two, be able to recognize winners. They come in all forms. And, three, have a plan for everything. A plan for practice, a plan for the game. A plan for being ahead, and a plan for being behind 20-0 at half, with your quarterback hurt and the phones dead, with it raining cats and dogs and no rain gear because the equipment man left it at home.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.