Gareth Southgate Quotes

The cost of leadership is self-interest.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

One should be constantly looking for the broader vision.

President [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt always had a wider point of view, of necessity, than I did.

A player has to think a lot bigger than himself personally, regardless of his situation.

At the end of the day, we need a leader who thinks with his head but leads with his heart.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.

We live in a world of competing sorrows ... to govern is to choose.

Communists must grasp the principle of subordinating the needs of the part to the needs of the whole. If a proposal appears feasible for a partial situation but not for the situation as a whole, then the part must give way to the whole. Conversely, if the proposal is not feasible for the part but is feasible in the light of the situation as a whole, again the part must give way to the whole.

If you're a politician, you can see there might be times when, to secure the greater good, you have to take a backwards step. That is a matter of tactics.

As a director, you realise the bigger picture.

I realise that sometimes you have to make tough decisions and football doesn't wait for people.

To be honest, I'm not the kind of guy to think about the future in the long term.

I think every leader must possess vision, and they absolutely have to have a heart of service.

The most important criteria for a DNC chair is going to be vision.

It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

Better lose me than lose a state.

Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.

Our greatest leaders are neither dreamers nor dictators: They are, like Jefferson, those who articulate national aspirations yet master the mechanics of influence and know when to depart from dogma.

I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered.

The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world.

...because with us what is highest must be at the service of others.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.