Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. They could be wielded like a sword...

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

LIGHT has no value without darkness, just as a SOLUTION has no value without a problem

One should measure their life by the faith they embrace and the relationships they cherish

Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.

problem-solving leaders have one thing in common: a faith that there’s always a better way.

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn’t a realistic expectation.

Leaders live by choice, not by accident.

While mistakes may be local, in today’s connected world embarrassment is global

Integrity is an integer, and nothing less.

The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.

start something, with a knowledge to end it.

Lest you forget the strong develop and improve the weak get frantic digress and deviate

To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or to prosecute without hesitation are qualities of a tyrant.

Never tell people when to meet; tell them when to leave.

The only way to follow your path is to take the lead.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Do what you love and love what you do, with excellence.

The worst kind of poverty is the poverty of vision.

Leadership is bringing people into new realms of excellence and challenging them to become distinguished in their chosen field.

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

Women are not just waiting to be filled up with resources-they’re waiting to put their resources on the table to be able to lead towards a different world

But I knew something that Elena hadn’t. That the measure of a true queen didn’t lie in her magic. It had more to do with who she was, and what she was willing to give...

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

I certainly believe this: that it is better to be impetuous than cautious, because Fortune is a woman, and if you want to keep her under it is necessary to beat her and force her...

Stress builds character and failure breeds motivation. I guess I’m a Optimist.

Some are young people who don’t know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don’t know of what. They are angry, but they don’t know...

Indira was surrounded by people who had given up hope, who blamed their own misery on the influence of Christianity and western cultures, and yet, literally in the midst of squalor, her family had created...

El error más grande al caer es quedarnos en el piso.

Success is not certain until you are obsessed by your goal

Leadership is making the wise decision even when it’s hard.

Socialists are convinced socialism will work if it’s only managed by the right people. It’s one of the reasons so many socialist countries wind up led by dictators. Socialist leaders inevitably become convinced that only...

Curiosity is always good if it is aimed at learning.

Radio was theater of the mind.

A commander’s pride got his soldiers dead.

An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation.

Josiah became King of Judah at the age of eight. Joan of Arc led the French Army at nineteen. King Tut led all of Egypt at age nine. Age isn’t everything you think it is....

You can’t chase your purpose if you’re chasing your past.

Leadership without support is like trying to make bricks without enough straw. True leaders reinforce their ideas and plans with strategic partnerships, alliances and supportiveaudiences.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Leadership is not just a privilege, but a responsibility to which we commit ourselves to helping to elevate those around us.

If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.

Critical and feminist theorists show that most leadership research, including studies of transformational leadership, continue to present prescriptions – heroic or post-heroic – as if they were gender neutral. The critics argue that, although there...

If you do not have the courage & conviction to talk about yourself..Who on Earth will ever listen to you or ever talk about you..NO ONE! Confidence has nothing to do with HUMILITY,it is pure...

Life is a bunch of ‘universal truths’, not mine, not anyone else’s …but which exist as a fact..until we ‘crack’ them for ourselves as ‘truths’!

Good rule is always driven by good opposition

The most interesting aspect of leadership is that it cannot be predicted. All great leaders had been quite ordinary in their early years. It was only when they became leaders that people started recognising them...

Patience is not a natural gift of a leader, it is a learned one. The more you broaden your awareness, understanding, and compassion, the better results you will get out of your people.

Leaders..should influence others..in such a way that it builds people up, encourages and edifies them so they can duplicate this attitude in others.