Quotes about Leadership

A visionary pastor is a successful pastor.

Although they are good people and have been called to ministry, most senior pastors do not have an understanding of God's vision for the ministries they are trying to lead—and, consequently, most churches have little impact in their community or in the lives of their congregants.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

If I hear that Quito, Ecuador, is doing something to have a whole area of town that's zero emissions, and we're thinking about that in Los Angeles' downtown, I'm like, 'I better catch up.'

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

At State Bank, all decisions are collective decisions. I have created the comfort zone.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.

One man with courage makes a majority.