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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is to be somebody.
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
Now there are five matters to which a general must pay strict heed. The first of these is administration; the second, preparedness; the third, determination; the fourth, prudence; and the fifth, economy.
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
These Australians hear the whispering in their heart and know it can only be silenced by coming to terms with the original owners of this beautiful and bounteous land. Many Australians of goodwill sense that a moment for national leadership has slipped past us and is gone.
The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others.
I wouldn't call myself a leader. I don't want to lead people, I want to tempt them, I want to create a new world for them, just for that very small moment, when they are losing themselves in my music. I want to inspire them
I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.
A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.
Our greatest individual challenge in life is self-discipline. The self-discipline of a healthy diet, daily exercise, controlling our thoughts, selflessly serving others, and living a life of integrity.
No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.
I think this transition to a candidacy will allow me to be more direct about my advocacy of the leadership skills necessary for the next president to fix a few things, and as a candidate, contrary to someone who has been listening and learning along the way, I'll offer up alternatives to the path we're on as well, so I'll be more specific on policy.
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill Walton, UH Volleyball coach, after his player kept looking at him on the bench every time the ball hit the floor...Next time you look at me I'll put you on the bench where you can see me better. My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they are popular. You make them because they are right.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'
For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.
The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
It is often assumed that money is the only motivational factor. Wrong.Fear is also important. Save money. Use fear!
On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.
Pompous asses knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.
We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.
Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.
Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.
Teaching is a passionate profession.
The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.
What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.
Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.
The more you expect from a volunteer the more you get.
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.
Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for the good of the nation, for the good of humanity, and recognizes the qualities he has and what he can do within his own limitations. He cannot do, and should not attempt to do, the impossible, but he should not fail to attempt something that might be extremely difficult and may be possible.
I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.
Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.
I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town couldn't do anything about it was stunning to me.
If you want to be a leader, it doesn't mean that you have to have an opinion on everything. But if you do have an opinion and it is clear and you feel strongly about it, then you should say it.
Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike.
Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.
While I was coaching, I believe the motivation talk I gave my players that achieved the best results was in reference to their present game-day effort. I stressed the fact that today's performance could be the most important of their life. Yesterday's performance was already history. Tomorrow really never comes, so today's performance is what really counts.
I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.
If you want to lead a family/team/organization, learn to lead/manage yourself first.
Surround yourself with positive people and positive influences.
I think you can measure how pathetic your life is by how much joy you get from learning about other people's faults and troubles.
Discontented people are exactly the kind of people that made America so Great. Sometimes it's good to be frustrated; it leads to change.
The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.
An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow.
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
We've gotten so much as a result of the changes. Part of our responsibility is to give something back to the game and the girls who are just starting to play.
Why Me? Why You? Why His? Why Hers, Why Mine? or Why Theirs? It should be We and Ours.
Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.
But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
Trust is the essence of Leadership.
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.
You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.
It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work. Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government and we have two choices for who’s our leader. In fascism you only have one choice. That’s great. We have one more choice than the worst form of government.
You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.
I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.
Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts.
In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough.
Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers.
A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities.
The single greatest demotivator of a team is having members who are not carrying their load.
Give away everything you have learned. If for no other reason, do it selfishly; in order to get more, you must give more.
One of the major sources of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness comes from feeling as if your life is out of control.
If you want to be around people who are positive and enthusiastic and eager to live life, your attitude has to be the same.
When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.
The truth is that problems won't just go away.
Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that are important to them ... not you.
For you to be successful and provide your employees with the necessary tools for success, you and your boss must work together - no matter what.
Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score.
1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.
I don't know any other way to lead but by example.
Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.
