Quotes about Patience In Leadership

It's a problem for him because he's got - like Edward VII had - nearly all his lifetime to wait until he becomes Monarch. What is he going to do with it? So he wants to do something positive but he always courts those dangers.

Nobody wins the league in December.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

But up until that time I want you just to follow my lead and don't worry. There are negotiations going on that will solve problems that you think are not solvable. So just be a little patient." Tessio

I wasn't in a rush to become a head coach. I really wasn't.

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion—and conciliation—and education—and patience. It's long, slow, tough work. That's the only kind of leadership I know—or believe in—or will practice.

You wait. I'll be the crankiest elder the Clans have ever seen. Mousefur will seem sweet and gentle next to me!

He stomped around the camp for a quarter moon, grumbling about queens who couldn't tell the difference between birth pains and indigestion.

I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.

Just because they aren't LISTENING, it doesn't mean they aren't HEARING. Go ahead and lead the HORSE to WATER. He'll DRINK it when he's READY.

Directing takes a lot of time.

In the final analysis, effective delegation takes the emotional courage to allow, to one degree or another, others to make some mistakes on our own time, money, and good name. This courage consists of patience, self-control, faith in others and in their potential, and respect for individual differences.

nothing but Mousefur's hindquarters and ticks for a moon! Firestar

Ui: I don't muzzle the animal that does my heavy lifting. I overlook the foibles of my employees.

in business doing nothing is often the hardest thing. (And not just in business. Harold Macmillan, prime minister during the Cuban missile crisis, mused then 'on the frightful desire to do something, with the knowledge that not to do anything was prob. the right answer'.)

A ruler can be persuaded through patience, and a gentle tongue can break a bone. Proverbs 25:15

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

Leadership is a journey, not a destination. It is a marathon, not a sprint. It is a process, not an outcome. (quoting John Donahoe)

It's easy to be a short-term hero. It is very easy for me to get tremendous results very short term, get that translated into compensation, and be off sailing in the Bahamas. But the goal for this company - and it's very difficult to do - the goal is to follow a four- or five-year process.

Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.

I cut him a small amount of slack, because it's generally easier to lead a horse to water than to hold it under for the time it takes to drown it.

Regla: el pensamiento a largo plazo mejora las decisiones de corto plazo.

Anybody who wants to rule the world should try to rule a garden first.

No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique.