Susan Collins Quotes

If you are going to lead people, you have to know where they are going.

Some people are really good at the visionary role. They're like third grade teachers who tell people the vision and values over and over and over until they get it right, right, right. But they're not implementers. If they're good leaders, they gather people around them who can take the implementation role and move it forward.

Leaders are visionaries. They see the outcome. Leaders are communicators. They tell us what they're seeing. They hold the dream, letting us feel that it's possible. Our minds open up to what they show us could be. We dream with them. We get excited with them, drawing on all our abilities to create the future.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

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

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

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

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Leadership is one of sports' intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, 'Follow me.'

Leadership requires a blend of strategy, persuasion, inspiration and motivation. It is based on respect more than fear.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

I've put a lot of thought into being a leader.

Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they're doing it. That's purpose. And that's the key to achieving something truly transformational.

For me coaching is about seeing a vision and trying to sell that vision to the players through a day to day teaching of the job.

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.

Quarterbacks are the leaders of the team, and I want to try to get guys going. That's a job of a leader. That's a job of a quarterback.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

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

As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated.

Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public.