Saturday, September 02, 2006

Another meaningful about GOOD LEADER!!!

Margaret Thatcher
"Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't."

George Patton
"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking."
"Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men."
"Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men."
"If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country?"
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"

Tacitus
"No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor."

Bill Gates
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."

Andrew Carnegie
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it."

John Wooden
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
"A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment."

Adolf Hitler
"To be a leader means to be able to move masses."
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
"The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes."
"For there is one thing we must never forget...the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards."

Nachman of Bratslav
"Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men."
"A strict master will not have understanding sons."

Colin Powell
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand."
"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 them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."

Dwight Eisenhower
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."
"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."
"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."
"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."

Benjamin Franklin
"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."

Benjamin Disraeli
"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"

Robert Half
"Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too."

James Crook
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."

Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."

Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there."

Sophocles
"What you cannot enforce, do not command."

John C. Maxwell
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

Lao-Tzu
"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves."
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."
"To lead people, walk beside them... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!"
"Ones who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him."
"Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment."

Sun Tze
"If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders ARE clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their officers."

E. M. Kelly
The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' - a leader says, 'Let's go!'.

Andre Maurois
"The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. "

Harold S. Geneen
"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned."

Jesse Jackson
"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."

Donald H. McGannon
"Leadership is an action, not a position."
"Others frightened captain makes a frightened crew."
"Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to posterity."
"A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves"
"There are two levers for moving men: interest and fear."
"To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead."
"Leaders don't force people to follow-they invite them on a journey."
"The first step to leadership is servanthood."
"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people."
"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit!"

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