Leadership

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Leadership is influence.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

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

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

Clarity affords focus.

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.