Haile Selassie Quotes

[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss.

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.

Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.

You're born with some things inside you that will allow you to lead, but I think you have to take the bull by the horns. You have to want that leadership position, and then there are things you can do to develop that.

The best leaders adapt and are flexible with their situations. I try to be the same.

I learned what it is to lead - and above all learnt that leadership is more about being strong on the inside than being loud on the outside.

That's all managing is: just coming up with the right questions and getting the right answers.

The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

[George W. Bush] has balls. And he's a leader. Unfortunately his balls and leadership are in the service of shitty ideas. We need his balls on someone who thinks right.

I think being able to have follow-through, I think a lot of people who are in charge, that is the one quality that you can't forsake. You can get opinions, but you can't have too many cooks in the kitchen when you're envisioning something.

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.

Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.

Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate

A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.