Quotes about Leadership

What would you like each of the speakers to say about you and your life?…

I think it should contain two basic parts: vision and principles. Vision deals with the mental picture of what you are about. And principles deal with how you go about it.

Principle-centered leadership is practiced from the inside out on four levels: 1) personal (my relationship with myself); 2) interpersonal (my relationships and interactions with others); 3) managerial (my responsibility to get a job done with others); and 4) organizational (my need to organize people—to recruit them, train them, compensate them, build teams, solve problems, and create aligned structure, strategy, and systems).

It was not the luck of being at the right moment in history that separated Bill Gates, but his proactive response to being at the right moment (Habit 1: Be Proactive).

And to be effective, that statement has to come from within the bowels of the organization.

Though they may have to prioritize the use of their influence, proactive people have a Circle of Concern that is at least as big as their Circle of Influence, accepting the responsibility to use their influence effectively.

There is no effectiveness without discipline and there is no discipline without character. And there is no character without first starting and asking questions.

Leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

There are organizations that talk a lot about the customer and then completely neglect the people that deal with the customer—the employees.

Many people wait for something to happen or someone to take care of them. But people who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.