Quotes About Leadership

Are you at the head of your class? If so, then you're in the wrong class.

Albert Schweitzer wisely stated, "I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." If you want to lead on the highest level, be willing to serve on the lowest. —The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader

What's worse than training your people and losing them? Not training them and keeping them.

Albert Schweitzer wisely stated, "I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." If you want to lead on the highest level, be willing to serve on the lowest.

Después de más de cuarenta años de matrimonio, una larga y exitosa carrera de orador, décadas de trabajo como líder de organizaciones y vasta experiencia en la formación de muchas personas en los Estados Unidos y en docenas de otros países, puedo asegurarte que si deseas tener éxito, debes aprender a relacionarte con los demás.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Trust men and they will be true to you: treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Such sober warnings in the Word of God should impress upon us the importance of keeping our priorities straight: God first, family second, ministry or career third. Only when a leader's relationship to God is right, and only when responsibilities as a family member are being properly met, can the leader be fully faithful in exercising the ministry God has given him or her.

Leaders have to deal simultaneously with people issues and business issues, and they need to be able to do both effectively. That's an art. As you work to develop people, maintain a relational approach, valuing them and adding value to them. At the same time, do what you must to achieve a good bottom line.

Leaders who have reached the top of their profession or the top of their organization cannot take anything for granted. No matter how good they've been in the past, they still need to strategize, weigh decisions, plan, and execute at a high level.

Opino que si continúo creciendo, continúo buscando oportunidades y continúo corriendo riesgos, continuaré experimentando momentos definitivos. Si continúo tomando buenas decisiones y siempre busco hacer las cosas que beneficien a mi gente en esos momentos, mi liderazgo continuará redefiniéndose, creciendo y mejorando. Cuando eso sucede, todos salimos ganando.

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who left well enough alone.

A leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others. Success without a successor is failure. A worker's main responsibility is developing others to do the work.

Si usted desea mejorar una organización, mejore a sus líderes. Si quiere hacer crecer una organización, haga crecer a sus líderes. Cuando usted aumenta la cantidad de líderes que tiene y los mejora, el potencial de la organización se incrementa en gran manera.

However, as a leader, if you can add results to relationships and develop a team of people who like each other and get things done, you have created a powerful combination.

Leadership expert Peter Drucker says, "The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes . . . otherwise he is sure to be mediocre." Mistakes really do pave the road to achievement.

A leader cannot demand of others what he does not demand of himself.

The price of greatness is responsibility." That

He knew that if you oversee people and you wish to develop leaders, you are responsible to: (1) appreciate them for who they are; (2) believe that they will do their very best; (3) praise their accomplishments; and (4) accept your personal responsibility to them as their leader.

As you and I grow and improve as leaders, so will those we lead. We need to remember that when people follow us, they can only go as far as we go. If our growth stops, our ability to lead will stop along with it.

No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level.

A Jeff Danziger cartoon shows a company president announcing to his staff, "Gentlemen, this year the trick is honesty." From one side of the conference table, a vice president gasps, "Brilliant." Across the table, another VP mutters, "But so risky.

A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas: learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively." Talent isn't enough. Experience isn't enough. To lead others, you must be able to communicate well, and connecting is key.

ASK NO MORE OF OTHERS THAN YOU ARE ASKING OF YOURSELF.