Quotes About Leadership

Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons

In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

Work hard, stay focused and surround yourself with good people.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

A leader's job is not to do the work for others; it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.

A vision is not a vision unless it says yes to some ideas and no to others, inspires people and is a reason to get out of bed in the morning and come to work.

When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.