Charles Kennedy Quotes

Despite his unimpressive appearance and manner, he was a brilliant fellow with a crystal-clear mind.... It was just that, when it came time for him to act like an executive, he was like a great many other people; when the time comes to make decisions, they have difficulty doing it.

Leadership is a role you have to earn in order to be effective.

Leadership is all about emotional intelligence. Management is taught, while leadership is experienced.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.

When you're President you have to make a lot of tough decisions. You have to keep lining them up and making them.

Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. Not me. I don't want to be a manager or a dictator. I want to be a leader-and leadership is ongoing, adjustable, flexible, and dynamic. As such, leaders have to maintain a certain amount of discretion

[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss.

You are not a leader to win a popularity contest-you are a leader to lead.

If you want to be a leader of people, you must learn to watch events.

We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.

I think being able to have follow-through, I think a lot of people who are in charge, that is the one quality that you can't forsake. You can get opinions, but you can't have too many cooks in the kitchen when you're envisioning something.

If I Had To Sum Up In One Word The Qualities That Make Up A Good Manager, I'd Say Decisiveness.

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think.

Can you believe that? She says I'm not leader enough for her. Who was she looking for... Hitler?

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.

Leaders have to lead.

I seek out a lot of advice from other CEOs.