A true Leader asks advice, when he has time to think; but he never asks advice in a crisis. He acts.

Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is.

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

Unconfessed sin is a terrible, heavy burden to carry. God loves us too much to have unconfessed sin.

I hire talented, creative, passionate learners who have a history of turning intention into reality.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now

Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

I want you to be a connoisseur of great questions? Here's one - what would we do if we had no money?

The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

Non-profits find the very best Who and put them on their Boards because they don't want to pay them.

The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?

Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.

An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say

And it falls to a true leader to see to it that his or her people have an inspiring vision to pursue.

He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

Whatever God wants to do through you, He will do in you first. You've got to be what you want to see.

Own the leadership style that makes you you. If you are an empathetic leader by nature, embrace that.

Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.

Guard your integrity as if it's your most precious leadership possession, because that is what it is.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

When you believe in someone, they will do anything and everything to live up to those who believe in.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

When a person gets right with God, my eyes are upward...I'm poor in spirit. I'm spiritually bankrupt.

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.

Jesus Christ was the ultimate influencer. My life has been influenced by Jesus more than anyone else.

American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

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