Quotes About Leadership

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

Think like a queen. A queen if not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

Encourage creative disruption: Random hostilities are not what the organization needs, but if nobody's pissed off, maybe you're not pushing hard enough. "Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

If you do not have a moral question in your governing process, then you do not have a process that is going to survive.

George Washington is one of the beacons placed at intervals along the highroad of history.

when attacked, centralized organizations tend to become even more centralized.

Ideology is the glue that holds decentralized organizations together.

In open organizations, a catalyst is the person who initiates a circle and then fades away into the background.

Having a goal is very different from having an agenda. You want to focus people without constraining them, something that is equally true in a corporate environment.

Drucker argued that this decentralization was key to the success of GM.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Many of the best and most conspicuous examples of strategic principles come from companies that were founded on them, companies such as eBay, Dell, Vanguard, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart ("Low prices, every day"). The founders of those companies espoused a clear guiding principle that summarized the essence of what would become a full-blown business strategy.

just as a brilliant strategy is worthless unless it is implemented, a powerful strategic principle is of no use unless it is communicated effectively. When CEO Jack Welch talks about aligning employees around GE's strategy and values, he emphasizes the need for consistency, simplicity, and repetition.

When a strategic principle is well crafted and effectively communicated, managers at all levels can be trusted to make decisions that advance rather than undermine company strategy.

GLOBE initiative,

Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.

It was not Marxism that made Lenin a revolutionary but Lenin who made Marxism revolutionary.

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.