Japanese Proverb Quotes

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

Survival is not the only goal of a great leader.

A lot of people say Michael Jordan and all of that. But Magic Johnson and my dad were my role models.

All the success I want is to inspire and impact on people that I come across that watch the game.

To me, the #1 key to success is 'creating lasting positive change in yourself and others.' That is what is most rare, most difficult, and most valuable about leading people.

No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.

A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

I don't pay that much attention to sales figures or awards. To me, the big question is: 'Did you influence the next generation?' That's my goal.

I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

Mr. [Winston] Churchill has been one of the few—the very few—who have significantly and beneficently affected the course of events … How seldom can this be said of anyone.

Great men don't 'move to the center' — great men move the center!

The capacity to persuade is an essential part of being a great leader.

Great men grow.

At the end of the day, people will follow you or people will be energised by you if they buy into your vision or purpose. So the most important thing is to be true to yourself. That's why I would say to be a great leader - you, first and foremost, have to be a great human being. And sharing that purpose and sharing the values.

Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission.

Greatness is contagious.

When I look at a leader, I look at someone who is able to get exceptional performance out of others.

When I was 15 or 16 and I started climbing up the ladder of success in amateur boxing, a reporter asked me, "What do you want to be?" I think he was expecting me to say, "A champion." I said, "I want to be special." I don't know why I said that, but I didn't just want to be a fighter. I wanted to have an impact with people, particularly kids.

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.