Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.
Being good is good business
Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams.
. . . that ultimate success in community leadership will only be achieved if it stimulates participation by others who are also to be seen as in their own way leaders and not merely helpers.
. . . what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social, cultural. Economic determinism is an objectionable creed where men and women espouse it in its communist or capitalist form because it treats human beings as economic units and not as responsible persons.
I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.
You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind.
I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.
What's it like to be on the other side of me?
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.
There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle. . . There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.
I like to tell people that all of our products and business will go through three phases. There's vision, patience, and execution.
Clarity affords focus.
Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything.
My purpose is to help people understand that leadership skills are useful and relevant for pursuing meaningful aspirations in all aspects of life, and that this is a choice, a decision, not a default.
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.
There are no office hours for leaders.