Quotes About Leadership

I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.

The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.

A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.

A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

Any good business person applies financial discipline to everything they do.

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

At the heart of any good business is a chief executive officer with one.

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

A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.

One of the most difficult tasks of visioneering is distinguishing between good ideas and God ideas.

I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general.

Ganguly is a very good leader. His return to the field brings a spring in the steps of the Indians. He is a great player.

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.