Quotes About Leadership

In the short term, there is scant room for dreaming, for one must choose between being taken seriously and being visionary. In the long term, however, leadership cannot afford to overlook the wisdom of dreams, even the wisdom of playful dreaming. Vision that bounds higher than the barriers that confine us often spring from earnest playfulness.

The board's position is, therefore, to act as the link between owners and management, directing and controlling the company on the owners' behalf. Put another way, the reason owners grant such authority is to enable the board to act as the ownership in microcosm.

Self-confidence seemed to me more mimicry than anything else and I suggested visiting Clifton Zoo to watch the leaders in a group of baboons, and learn from them: make your gestures slow and deliberate; cultivate a deeper voice; appear casual at all times; eschew all rapid movements. That was all you had to do to look confident.

The second was that the creative architects always deferred making decisions for as long as they were allowed.

If you can't control your own emotions, you're forced to control other people's behaviour. That's why the touchiest, most oversensitive and easily upset must not set the standard for the rest of us .

Men that have much business must have much pardon

This team has great character. And they showed it. We talked about forgiveness (for the players who missed the game); we'll get those guys back and we'll be a better football team.

We can take an important step today back to the politics of respect and trust and fairness and forgiveness,

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

If people talk about you behind your back, that would mean you are in front, so stay ahead!!

Stand out from the crowd, keep the grass cut low to see the snakes and remember to kill them with a smile.

The mother who set the standard for family and lead the way becomes a role model for society.

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.

Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it: Spend time with your families.

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently

The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.

I thank You, God, in Heaven, for friends. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.