When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can’t find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.
– Ross Perot
Tag Archives: Character
Leadership…
Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability as well as determination not to accept failure.
– Admiral Arleigh A. Burke
To be…
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success…
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
– Winston Churchill
A moment….
“… of choice is a moment of truth. It’s the testing point of our character and competence.
– Stephen Covey
A moment…
… of choice is a moment of truth. It’s the testing point of our character and competence
– Stephen Covey
Consensus:
…. The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?’
– Margaret Thatcher
Leadership rests…
… not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. Leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and willpower in the character.
– Vince Lombardi
High sentiments….
… always win in the end, The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
– George Orwell
If leaders are…
… careless about basic things – telling the truth, respecting moral codes, proper professional conduct – who can believe them on other issues?
– James L Hayes
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