Quotes about Leadership

According to Stephen Covey, delegating to others is perhaps the single most powerful high-leveraging activity there is. There are people who love what you hate. Strengthen your team by setting them free to do what only they can do. In that way you will ensure that your organization reflects your strengths as well as the strengths of those around you.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

If God has birthed a vision in you, he is in the process of developing a similar vision in the hearts of others around you.

An unwillingness to accept risk has swamped more leaders than anything I can think of.

Seasoned leaders rarely regret having taken risks. Even the risks that didn't pay off directly are viewed as a necessary part of the journey. A leader's regrets generally revolve around missed opportunities, not risks taken. Many of those missed opportunities would not have been missed had they been willing to push through their fear and embrace what could be. Fear, not a lack of good ideas, is usually what keeps a man or woman standing on the sidelines.

Keep in mind that everything you loathe about your current environment or organization was originally somebody's good idea.

One of the primary reasons that you have to listen to outsiders: If you don't, you will be driven by the complaints and demands of the insiders.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

Leaders who don't listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.

When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

I'm more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It's just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else.

Political life is like a big wheel: constantly turning. At times you are up, at times down. But always, the wheel keeps moving.