Muntean Leadership Quotes

You cannot lead people you do not influence. ~ Johnny Hunt

Things fell into place and there was an opportunity for fresh leadership. And - I was - I was successful. ~ Justin Trudeau

One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process. ~ Simon Sinek

Serving others prepares you to lead others. ~ Jim George

Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal field when she was a practicing lawyer are unqualified. ~ Kay Bailey Hutchison

Be not professional in what you do, rather be excellent. Excellence has life in it - it has colors in it - it has sweetness in it - whereas professionalism is a dead corpse exuding the disgusting smell of obedience. Excellence requires no obedience, yet in excellence you act your best, without all the life-sucking efforts. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Leadership is essentially a task of persuasion - of winning people's minds and hearts. ~ Stephen Denning

You do not become a leader because people follow you. Rather, people tend to follow you because you have leadership qualities. The journey of leadership often starts alone. ~ Awdhesh Singh

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves. ~ William J.H. Boetcker

I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership ... I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches a person how to do and say the right thing at the right time. It coexists with very ordinary qualities, and yet many great geniuses are without it. Of all human qualities I consider it the most convenient
not always the highest; yet I would rather have it than many more shining qualities. ~ M. E. W. Sherwood

Leaders who aren't conduits are either dams of dry. ~ Johnathan Key

When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears. ~ Elvin Hayes

I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work. ~ Bear Bryant

Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It's about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, 'I could have done three things better yesterday.' ~ Jeffrey R. Immelt

People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat. ~ Bear Bryant

Practice transforms a skill into an art ~ Siddharth Joshi

Leadership is all about getting results. ~ Peter Drucker

Thoughts are free, talk is cheap, and action is expensive. What's your worth? ~ Noel DeJesus

The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections ~ Fela Durotoye

Most people don't listen to understand, they listen, and push in, to prove their point is RIGHT! ~ Tony Dovale

We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them. ~ Peter Chernin

But still, you feel no remorse for the dead. You do whatever you can to forget them. You abandoned your family without a word. You can't control yourself. Hald the time you run away from leadership, and the other half you act like some untouchable martyr, crowned in guilt, the only person who's really giving herself to the cause. Look around you, Mare Barrow. Shade's not the only one who died in Corros. You are not the only one to make sacrifices. Farley betrayed her father. You forced Cameron to join us against her will, you chose to ignore everything but Julian's list, and now you want to abandon the kids back at the Notch. For what? To step on the Colonel's neck? To take a throne? To kill anyone who looks at you the wrong way? ~ Victoria Aveyard

There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am ... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it's the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test. ~ Mike Pompeo

Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team. ~ Orrin Woodward

I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he fled, [because] that is what he faced. ~ Rand Paul

True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential. ~ John Paul Warren

Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure. ~ Arleigh Burke

The next time you are in a meeting, ask the quietest person what they think. Invite everyone into the conversation. If you are on a conference call, ask the people on the phone to share their thoughts first. ~ Satya Nadella

Many have exchanged the touch of God for the applause of men ~ John Paul Warren

We as Aboriginal people still have to fight to prove that we are straight out plain human beings, the same as everyone else. You know, I grew up, born on a government blanket under a palm tree. I lived under lantana bushes, I've seen more dinner times than I've seen dinners, I've known discrimination, I've known prejudice, I've known all of those things ... but some of that is still with us ... and it's got to be changed ... ~ Neville Bonner

God uses us to impact others. ~ Johnny Hunt

This was my first real lesson in politics ... If you are cast on a desert island with only a screwdriver, hatchet, and the chisel to make a boat with, why, go and make the best one you can. It would be better if you had a saw, but you haven't, so with men. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction. ~ George Soros

Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so. ~ Ronald A. Heifetz

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change ... I'm changing the things I cannot accept. ~ Angela Davis

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for ~ W. Edwards Deming

Be the solution, not the pollution. ~ Abhijit Naskar

In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.) ~ Joe Manchin

The enemy doesn't warn its target. Emergencies do not make appointments, and the greatest battles of life are often surprises. ~ Wayde Goodall

Our greatest limitation isn't the leader of the lives; it is the spirit within us. ~ John F. MacArthur Jr.

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day. ~ Patrick Ness

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced. ~ Stephen Covey

He never wanted to be king, and it was that very trait that made him a great king. It was the characteristic comprising all extraordinary leaders. ~ Ella Rose Carlos