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Entries Tagged as 'Theodore Roosevelt'

Leadership Quotes

February 11th, 2011 · No Comments

“The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without ‘playing up’ to anyone – even to himself.”
~Andre Malraux
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
~John F Kennedy
“The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the [...]

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Tags: Eric Hoffer · John F. Kennedy · Lao Tzu · Leadership · Leadership Quotes · Theodore Roosevelt · Walter J. Lippmann

Eliciting the Want and Desire

August 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Effective leaders understand the power that each member of a group possesses.  Effective leaders tap into that power by eliciting the want and desire of the possessor.
Leadership quote from Theodore Roosevelt:
“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them [...]

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Tags: Empowerment · Leadership · Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt on How to Lead

February 27th, 2007 · No Comments

“Speak Softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”

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Tags: Leadership Quotes · Theodore Roosevelt