Leadership The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure of an organization. ~ F. Fiedler & M. Chemers Improving Leadership Effectiveness Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. ~Colin Powell The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. ~ Max DePree The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. ~ Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonalds People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . . The leader works in the open, and the boss is covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. ~ Theodore Roosevelt Corruption is the nightmare that keeps democracy a dream. ~ anonymous To expect innovation without support is hallucination. ~ anonymous A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders dont inflict pain. They bear pain. ~ Max DePree The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. ~ Henry Miller Managers think about today. Leaders think about tomorrow. ~ Dan McCreary When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. ~ Lao Tse The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~Martin Luther King He who thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk. ~ Anonymous Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing. ~ Warren Bennis Leadership is a quality of those who earn the respect of others through the wisdom of the combination of their words and their actions. ~ Walter Grant IV Leaders manage change. Managers control process. ~ Anonymous Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. ~ Lord Acton There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. ~ Kurt Vonnegut Heres my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose. ~Ronald Reagan The most terrifying words in the English language are: Im from the government and Im here to help. ~Ronald Reagan The trouble with our liberal friends is not that theyre ignorant; its just that they know so much that isnt so. ~Ronald Reagan Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong. ~Ronald Reagan I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress. ~Ronald Reagan The taxpayer: Thats someone who works for the federal government but doesnt have to take the civil service examination. ~Ronald Reagan Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. ~Ronald Reagan The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program. ~Ronald Reagan It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan Governments view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. ~Ronald Reagan Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book. ~Ronald Reagan No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. ~Ronald Reagan If we ever forget that were one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under. ~Ronald Reagan I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult. ~EB White Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself ~Leo Tolstoy When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. ~PJ O’Rouke Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden but it is forbidden because its hurtful. Nor is a Duty beneficial because it is commanded, but it is commanded, because its beneficial. ~Benjamin Franklin Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power ~Benjamin Franklin Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ~ Lord Acton (1887) Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. ~Albert Schweitzer Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations ~Barry Goldwater Remember that a government big enough to give everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have. ~Barry Goldwater Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. ~John Wayne To be humble to superiors is Duty, to Equals is Courtesy, to Inferiors is Nobleness. ~Benjamin Franklin
Posted on: Thu, 22 May 2014 22:03:13 +0000
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