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The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
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.
Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
What a rope of sand we are without a leader.
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.
The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.
You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind.
In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.
Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire.
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.
Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
Leadership demands that we make tough choices.
On learning: if you really want alignment, go to a chiropractor.
Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.
There is no algorithm for creativity.
Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.
Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.
No one ever has the resources they need.
We always have more ideas than we can fund.
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.
People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.
In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.
The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.
Do not do that which you would not have known.
There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.
Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.
If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them...to everyone.
A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.
If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.
It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language. My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time.
A great start to the perfect day - a world-class workout at the gym... It's hard to feel miserable after a great workout.
All you can do is all you can do... If all you can do, is still not good enough, then go do something else.
If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself.
Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.
We need leadership, and we need it now.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Why Me? Why You? Why His? Why Hers, Why Mine? or Why Theirs? It should be We and Ours.
There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.
I'm not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they'll ask for it.
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.
He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.
There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.
Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.
A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.
They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.
Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
It's such a rarity to have women in senior powerful positions. We can name them all. Fact is, women can handle power and handle it well. That's something I'd like a lot more women to understand.
We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.
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.
If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.
Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.
I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.
Most of what we know about sales comes from a world of information asymmetry, where for a very long time sellers had more information than buyers. That meant sellers could hoodwink buyers, especially if buyers did not have a lot of choices or a way to talk back.
Human beings are natural mimickers. The more youre conscious of the other sides posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate youll be at taking their perspective.
The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.
Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
Give away everything you have learned. If for no other reason, do it selfishly; in order to get more, you must give more.
You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.
Don't stifle your career by limiting you knowledge.
There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do.
If you want to make better use of your time, you need to be looking for the small increments of time ... a minute here, five minutes there, etc.
We all need people who will help us look at situations from a different perspective.
You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.
A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.
... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social, cultural. Economic determinism is an objectionable creed where men and women espouse it in its communist or capitalist form because it treats human beings as economic units and not as responsible persons.
You can't teach court savvy
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.
God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.
