Quotes About Leadership

Oh, for the pre-Twitter days, when it took something more than a word fart by a president who never opens a book to turn the world upside down.

In the balloons of grandeur that kept Stephenson aloft, the presidency was just a few puffs of helium away. "Boys, I'm not in this for the money," he told his cronies. "You're going to put me in the White House.

Ideas take on their own trajectory, but they die without people to carry them into the corridors of power.

D. C. Stephenson was telling the state's top elected officials what to do. And they followed the Klansman's every order.

a democratic nation can limp along even when its chief of state is widely understood to be a lazy, bumbling simpleton. Fallible leadership is the only kind of leadership any nation ever has. Since totalitarians cannot afford to admit this, their domains start and end in fantasy

It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.

I always advise young people to become good public speakers (top 25%). Anyone can do it with practice. If you add that talent to any other, suddenly you're the boss of the people who have only one skill.

Make your peace with the fact that saying 'no' often requires trading popularity for respect." —Greg McKeown, Essentialism

Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. —ROBERT FROST, American poet and winner of four Pulitzer Prizes

If you want great mentors, you have to become a great mentee. If you want to lead, you have to first learn to follow. Ben

This is the best thing you're ever going to learn in SEAL training.' We were excited to learn what it was, and he told us that when you're a leader, people are going to mimic your behavior, at a minimum. . . . It's a guarantee. So here's the key piece of advice, this is all he said: 'Calm is contagious.

Kids don't do what you say. They do what they see. How you live your life is their example.

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. You'll avoid the tough decisions, and you'll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted."—Colin Powell

Must-watch documentary The Gatekeepers (2012)

I will often write "GO FIRST" in my morning journal as a daily prompt.

sometimes it pays to model the outliers, not flatten them into averages. This isn't limited to business.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. —ROBERT FROST,

One of the world's great investors once said to me, "Tom, what do you consider the number-one failing of CEOs?" After I hemmed and hawed, he said, "They don't read enough.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." —James Cameron "If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission properly." —Colonel David Hackworth "Not my circus. Not my monkeys." —Polish proverb

Losers react, leaders anticipate.

La visión consiste en entregar la responsabilidad a los trabajadores, darles toda la información sobre lo que ocurre para que puedan hacer más de lo que han hecho hasta el momento.» BILL GATES,

A common rookie error that inexperienced leaders make is always agreeing with the last person they talked to; this takes a while to get past, though it becomes easy once you get exposed to enough people who contradict each other.