Klaus Kinski Quotes

Miss Universe is someone who communicates her thoughts effectively and is able to connect to people.

A great leader has brains, vision, soul, values and a heart.

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]

Practice, practice, practice in speaking before an audience will tend to remove all fear of audiences, just as practice in swimming will lead to confidence and facility in the water. You must learn to speak by speaking.

Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome and heir to a throne?

Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.

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

Model the behavior you wish more people would display. Lead first.

To truly lead one's people, one must also truly know them.

I'm definitely more talented than most of the guys I know.

You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it. And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

I think I have a natural ability to lead.

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

In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.

A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.

Donald Trump's temperament and character is precisely what you would hate to see in your children, much less your president.

The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how brutal (within the bounds of the company's core values), to make the company great. Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.

You can't be jealous and be a leader.

Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.

Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.

Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil

I really believe being a good listener is important for anybody, and particularly for somebody who wants to be a leader.

Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.

The great leaders that I have worked with are people who have a good sense of empathy with other people. They can walk a factory floor, or walk through a battalion and smell if there's something wrong.

I admire President Obama's ability to trust strangers.