Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

Management must manage!

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

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

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.

When I come upon a man who has a gleaming empty clear desktop I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration discrimination organization innovation and communication.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.