“In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.”

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.

Innovation grows out of membership and a sure sense of responsibility people feel for their work and the organizations that employ them.

Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals.

The direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary.

The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines

Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them.

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don’t have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.

What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change – to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change.

Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.

When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

Do what Jesus says… what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your leaders, not only those who are gentle and kind, but even those who are overbearing [see 1 Pt 2:18].

Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.

A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement.

Hines Ward, Plaxico Burress, Jerome Bettis-they are great leaders. I listen to everything they say.