Daniel Libeskind Quotes

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Leaders set a very clear path every day, in a thousand different ways, of what the people must attend to, inhibit, and keep it current in front of them.

Leadership is more than just managing economic reforms. Leadership means giving broad direction, take up challenges which other people cannot do.

It's one thing to be able to analyze something. It's another to implement it or execute on a vision or even to get a whole bunch of people to rally behind it.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

You have to commit to the what, before the how shows up.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

There are two qualities that I've noticed in good directors: One is that they have their vision very strongly in place; and two is that they listen to everyone's opinion and still remember their vision.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.

Basically, managing is about influencing action. Managing is about helping organizations and units to get things done, which means action. Sometimes, managers manage actions directly. They fight fires. They manage projects. They negotiate contracts.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

First things first, second things never.

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

There is only one way to respond to the issue of leadership and that is to lead.