Quotes about Leadership

Some of those under your supervision will catch on quickly, others not. Understanding that patience is an integral part of good teaching and effective leadership allowed me to accept the varying speeds at which people learn and to accommodate, within reason, those differences. Patience became an asset for me rather than a liability. I came to understand that good things take time.

what I say about leadership: "You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

I'm very proud of the fact that while all the records were being set at UCLA by our basketball teams, I felt exactly the same way. Family is first. Always. Always.

There are no big things, only an accumulation of many little things. Remove enough rivets and the wing falls off. However, it is up to you, the leader, to identify the correct rivets and determine how much attention each will be given. Do this correctly and your organization will survive flying through even the most turbulent competitive storm.

For the strength of the pack is the wolf; and the strength of the wolf is the pack." —Rudyard Kipling

Ultimately, I believe that's what leadership is all about: helping others to achieve their own greatness by helping the organization to succeed.

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'come follow me.'

The Lord did nothing either of himself or through his apostles without his Father, with whom he is united; so too, you should undertake nothing without the bishop and the presbyters priests.

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.