How A Leader Leads

Hire character. Train skill. - Peter Schutz

The view only changes for the lead dog. - Norman O. Brown

As is our confidence, so is our capacity. - William Hazlitt

Confidence is the hinge on the door to success. - Mary O'Hare Dumas

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. - Charles de Gaulle

Management is nothing more than motivating people. - Lee Iacocca

Wolves and lambs can enjoy no meeting of the minds. - Achilles

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him float. - Unknown

Tough decisions... if you can't make them, you can't lead. - John C Maxwell

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. - Harvey Mackay

If you want to lead the people, you must first speak to their eyes. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it. - Dr. Phil McGraw

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try. - Zig Ziglar

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved. - Michael Ende

Anything less than a commitment to excellence is an acceptance of mediocrity. - Vince Lombardi

Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world. - Unknown

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. - Charles Dudley Warner

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. - Chinese Proverb

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. - Frank A. Clark

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. - Saul Bellow

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. - Vince Lombardi

You do not lead by hitting people over the head; that is assault, not leadership. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. - Lewis Grizzard

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. - David S Jordan

You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. - Red Auerbach

Leadership is all about influence and everything rises and falls on leadership... everything. - John C Maxwell

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too. - David Storey

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. - Tom Landry

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence. - George Washington

Violence of language leads to violence of action. Angry men seldom fight if their tongues do not lead the fray. - Charles V Roman

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes. - Harvey Mackay

I think Mr. Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills. Everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I'm around. - Homer Simpson

Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth. - Rolf Peterson

The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. - Albert Einstein

A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use is inversely proportional to your skill. - Martin H. Fischer