Leaders live by choice, not accident.
If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve,and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him: he will survive and play his part. So now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes, or of the leaders of their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.
Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.
I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.
We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have bravely born this brutal battle for so many years with so many casualties. And we do this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam-and all who seek to share their conquest-of a simple fact: We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement.
Time and energy. Those are the most valuable sacrifices leaders can make.
Leaders are never appreciated or needed until you don't have them.
Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.
I think that the main issue with inequality is not the gap between the rich and the poor. It is the gap between the earnings of top business leaders and the salaries of academics and journalists.
Leaders who won't own failures become failures.
Our leaders are stupid. Our politicians are stupid.
You frequently hear the phrase "culture eats strategy for lunch!" This is something that they don't teach you in school and few leaders appreciate. Cultural influences come at you from two different directions. There is the organizational culture that you must understand if you are to impact significant strategic initiatives. If the "people" are on board, you can achieve anything. Vice versa if they are not - you will not achieve anything.
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
Peter Joseph is asking the questions and proposing the possible solutions that we should be demanding from the elected leaders of this crazy world. His brilliant analysis of this ridiculous system we're operating under is one of the most important voices for change in this generation.
The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.
Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself.
Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it should be fun.
There are two outstanding issues in democratic politics these days. One is the relationship with the media, which is now 247, and operates with a completely different intensity than even 15 or 20 years ago. How do we have a proper conversation between leaders and country when it's moderated sometimes in a very partisan and inflammatory way? And the second thing is the effectiveness of our democracy. How do we get the right gene and talent pool in politics?