LEADERSHIP

"A true leader empowers, not devours."   "Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you."  --- "Cheers" "To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day." --- Sir Winston Churchill"Illegitimis non carborundum."   Lat., "Don't let the bastards grind you down." --- Gen. Joseph Stilwell"Coming together is a beginning.Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." --- Henry Ford    "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing.  The worst thing you can do is nothing."  --- Theodore Roosevelt    "The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work." --- Mark Twain    "A team based environment demands that you make responsible decisions; it requires you to take charge of your career. It requires you to develop excellent interpersonal skills because you have to interact at a much different level with your team members. No longer is it just you and your job!" --- Catherine Pulsifer     "Teams do not seek consensus; they seek the best answer." --- Jon R. Katzenbach & Douglas K. Smith“You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.” --- Bob Nelson  “No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.” --- W. A. Nance    "People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives."  --- Theodore Roosevelt"A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group." --- Russell H. Ewing    "The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive." --- Joe Batten"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly." ---Jim Rohn   "The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." --- Kenneth Blanchard    "Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." --- Sam Walton   "The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability." --- Fred A. Manske, Jr. "A leader is best when people barely know he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, the people will say, 'We did it ourselves.'" --- Lao Tzu “The art of leadership is keeping the right people in the right place." --- Chinnappan Baskar   "Many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request." --- Lord Chesterfield   “The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure of an organization.”  --- Fred Fiedler & Martin Chemers   “Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.” --- Sir Winston Churchill  “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” --- George Patton   “A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. --- General of the Armies John J. Pershing   “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” --- Mother Theresa   “It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . .  The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.”  --- W. Edwards Deming   “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” --- Dwight Eisenhower   “I must follow them, I am their leader” --- Andrew Law Bonar   ”Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” --- John F. Kennedy