“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.

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.

I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.

I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences.

He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

Ma’at demands a leader.” “Yeah so I’ve heard.

Once again, America finds itself with some leaders who believe we can ignore the world without consequences here at home. Apparently they’re oblivious to the reality that we are less insulated from global events than ever before.

How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa?