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“Leadership is something you earn, something you're chosen for. You can't come in yelling, 'I'm your leader!' If it happens, it's because the other guys respect you.”

Ifs Happens Guy Leader Chosen Other Guys Yelling

Author:Ben Roethlisberger

“I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be a leader. I just try to behave the way I think I should behave. If that results in a leadership role, great.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Trying Looks Hard Results Leader Roles Example Hard Work Behave Good Examples Leadership Roles

Author:Matt Holliday

“Every coach, every executive, every leader: They all know right from wrong. Even those Enron guys. When someone uncovers a scandal in their company, I don't think they can say, "I didn't know that was going on." They're just saying they're too dumb to do their job! And if they really are too dumb, then why are they getting paid millions of dollars to do it? They know what's going on.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Jobs Guy Company Leader Millions Paid Dollars Coaches Dumb Executives Scandal Just Saying Enron Enron Scandal

Author:Bo Schembechler

“If the world is to hear the church's voice today, leaders are needed who are authoritative, spiritual, and sacrificial. Sacrificial, because this trait follows the model of Jesus, who gave Himself for the whole world and who calls us to follow in His steps.”

Ifs World Whole Today Spiritual Jesus Voice Church Leader Steps Needed Models Whole World Traits

Book:Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer

Source: Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer

“You'd know if I was the de-facto leader of the Democratic Party, because you'd go down to Walgreen's and buy a pack of blunts.”

Ifs Knows Party Leader Democratic Packs Democratic Party

Author:Bill Maher

“The first duty of a leader is optimism. How does your subordinate feel after meeting with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Doe Leader Duty

Author:Bernard Law Montgomery

“If you're a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.”

Ifs Leader Serious

Author:Bill Hybels

“The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.”

Ifs Firsts Leader Vision Tasks Organization

Author:Rick Warren

“Each of us can be a leader. We need to remember that the mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort, but the robe of responsibility. Perhaps our service is to youth. If so, I caution: 'Youth needs fewer critics and more models.' One hundred years from now it will not matter what kind of a car we drove, what kind of a house we lived in, how much we had in the bank account, nor what our clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better because we were important in the life of a boy or a girl.”

“You can offer the ability to citizens to choose from one of the two parties and elect their leaders as much as you want. But "democracy" is an illusion - a sham - if the most significant acts taken by those leaders are kept concealed from the citizenry.”

Ifs Want Two Ability Party Leader Democracy Taken Citizens Offers Illusion Significant Concealed Citizenry

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service.”

“Leadership requires followership and following is an act of trust, faith in the course of the leader, and that faith can be generated only if leaders act with integrity.”

Ifs Courses Leader Integrity Following Followership

Book:American spirit: visions of a new corporate culture

Source: American spirit: visions of a new corporate culture

“If it's the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.”

Ifs Giving Helping Lasts Church Leader Get Better

Book:Holy Discontent: Fueling the Fire That Ignites Personal Vision

Source: Holy Discontent: Fueling the Fire That Ignites Personal Vision

“Goose pimples rose all over me, my hair stood on end, my eyes filled with tears of love and gratitude for this greatest of all conquerors of human misery and shame, and my breath came in little gasps. If I had not known that the Leader would have scorned such adulation, I might have fallen to my knees in unashamed worship, but instead I drew myself to attention, raised my arm in the eternal salute of the ancient Roman Legions and repeated the holy words, "Heil Hitler!"”

“What are the most important qualities that make a successful entrepreneur? The ability to communicate. The ability to express your idea with certainty. That's how you become a leader-even if you are unsure, your ability to explain your vision and your direction is the attribute you need the most. ... Articulate your idea in 90 seconds or less.”

Ifs Needs Important Ideas Ability Quality Leader Vision Successful Entrepreneur Communicate Certainty Seconds Attributes Unsure Successful Entrepreneurs Ability To Communicate

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“Leaders don't ever "arrive." If we ever think we're done, we are done!”

Ifs Thinking Done Leader

Author:Mark Millar

“Leaders should interact with everyone in their organization as if the interaction is being recorded and will be used as a training film on how to treat colleagues, coworkers, and customers.”

Ifs Should Film Used Leader Training Organization Treats Customers Interaction Colleagues Coworker

Author:Bill Crawford

“Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.”

Ifs Leader Wonder

Author:Andy Stanley

“If you want real, significant, sustainable change, you need talented, committed local line leaders. If the line manager is not innovating, then innovation is not going to occur.”

Ifs Want Needs Real Lines Leader Innovation Committed Significant Locals Managers

Author:Peter Senge

“If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.”

People Ifs Hard Together Leader Hard Work Commitment Working It

Book:Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership

Source: Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership

“If only religious leaders could be trusted, then maybe there wouldn't be so many problems. They have perverted any truth that the Bible may have.”

Ifs May Problem Religious Leader Trusted Religious Leaders

Author:Ryan Hofmeister

“To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.”

Ifs Want Powerful Leader Failing Risk Industry Organization Not Afraid Permission Better Place Very Powerful Taking Risks

Author:Rick Welts

“If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.”

Ifs Leader Percent Increase Mere

Author:Dale Carnegie

“How could any responsible leader have ignored the Iraqi threat? If we had not acted, Saddam Hussein and his sons would still be in power.”

Ifs Stills Leader Son Responsible Threat Ignored Saddam Hussein

Author:Dick Cheney

“If I was one of the leaders...if I was just a leader of one of these studios what I would do is I would go to all my cohorts who run other studios and say let's make a deal. Let's each of us make three 3D movies a year or whatever the number is. Let's not take every movie and make it a 3D movie. Let's take our three tentpoles or whatever movie it is so you have a specialness to it.”

Ifs Years Running Three Deals Numbers Leader Studios Specialness

Author:Neal H. Moritz

“People who are slavish to a fantasy ideology become very lonely in the world. It's very alienating and sometimes reality is very threatening to this magical way of thinking. On the other hand, if it is a politician or leader that chooses for whatever reason to remain in this state of magical thinking, then they should be called out for it strongly and repeatedly.”

People Ifs Thinking World Way Sometimes Reason Hands Reality Leader Fantasy Politician Lonely Ideology Threatening Way Of Thinking

Author:Mark Ruffalo

“If you're a leader, your whole reason for living is to help human beings develop - to really develop people and make work a place that's energetic and exciting and a growth opportunity, whether you're running a Housekeeping Department or Google. I mean, this is not rocket science.”

People Ifs Humans Mean Reason Whole Helping Running Opportunity Growth Human Beings Leader Exciting Department Google Rockets Energetic Housekeeping Rocket Science

Author:Tom Peters

“If more of our so-called leaders would walk the same streets as the people who voted them in, live in the same buildings, eat the same food instead of hiding behind glass and steel and bodyguards, maybe we'd get better leadership and a little more concern for the future.”

People Ifs Littles Walks Behinds Leader Streets Building Concern Glasses Get Better Hiding Steel Bodyguard

Author:Bruce Boxleitner

“If I can be a leader, I will.”

Ifs I Can Leader

Author:Lady Gaga

“If we only elected good men, we'd never have leaders.”

Ifs Men Leader Good Man

Author:Enoch L. Johnson

“Hubris, arrogance, is just one step ahead of loss of integrity, because if you think you're better than other people, you know more, then you're going to think, as many leaders have, that the rules don't apply to them - so they lose their integrity.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Loses Loss Leader Steps Integrity Arrogance Just One Hubris

Author:Charles Koch

“Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.”

Ifs Humans Names Human Beings Leader Wonder Claims Right Thing Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I'm a complete libertarian. I think it's very, very dangerous. I really mean that. I think the smoking ban is a tip of an iceberg of society - the leaders of society telling us how to be. I think it's not their business. It's an attitude where the governors think, 'We know what's best for people, and they're so stupid that they would only not do it if we ban it.'”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Mean Attitude Leader Dangerous Stupid Libertarian Smoking Governors Really Mean Bans Iceberg

Author:Jeremy Irons

“As I travel around the world, it's fascinating; European leaders, Asian leaders, they all say to me, America is actually poised to be the world leader for another century - if we can fix some of this political dysfunction. ... We've got a lot of national security challenges, but if we get our economy together, and if we can get our political system to work well, I am really confident about our future.”

“Leadership is accomplishing something through other people that wouldn't have happened if you weren't there. . . Leadership is being able to mobilize ideas and values that energize other people. . . . Leaders develop a story line that engages other people.”

People Ifs Ideas Stories Able Values Lines Leader Happened Accomplishing Something

Author:Noel Tichy

“I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a corpse, he is sure to win. There is no doubt of that. Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of the Soul of the leaders-the 'live to fight another day' doctrine.”

Ifs Soul Fighting Winning Loss Leader Doubt Promise Battle Destruction Defeat Dues Doctrine No Doubt Corpses Conqueror Another Day

Author:George S. Patton

“Visualize a wagon wheel as a complete team. A leader might be the hub of the wheel at the center. Now suppose the spokes are the connecting relationships the leader is building with people on the outer rim of the wheel. If the hub is removed, then the entire wheel collapses. In a situation like that, if a team loses the leader, the entire team collapses.”

People Ifs Might Loses Situation Leader Team Building Wheels Spokes Collapse Connecting Wagons Rims Hub Wagon Wheels

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“If a leader engages in sinful activity that becomes the standard, if he is strict that becomes the standard.”

Ifs Leader Activity Standards Strict

Author:Radhanath Swami

“Superior quality is a prerequisite to entering the game. By definition, an entrepreneur is undercapitalized relative to the status quo. Therefore, if you enter a product that is either at parity with the leaders, or not as good, you won't even get to the starting line.”

Ifs Games Lines Quality Leader Products Entrepreneur Starting Definitions Superiors Relative Entering Status Quo Prerequisites Parity

Author:Gary Hirshberg

“However, however, if the goal is to abandon America's free enterprise economy, if the goal is to convert America into a submissive member of the international community, if the goal is not to fix America, but to change America, then they want leaders that are going to come up here and fight it every step of the way.”

Ifs Way Want America Fighting Goal Community Leader Steps Economy Members International Come Up Enterprise Abandon Every Step International Community Submissive Free Enterprise

Author:Marco Rubio

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