Naveen Tewari Quotes

I am better when I have control. I am not a power freak. But my point is that I need to feel that I can manage the team and have a direct, clear line through to the owners. Once that becomes hazy, for me, there is a problem.

Leadership is a choice. It's not a rank, it's a choice. I know many people who are at the top of their organization who have authority. We have to do what they say because they have authority over us. But they're not leaders. We wouldn't follow them. They may be at the top of the company but they're not leaders.

Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

No one can move without some leadership.

Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.

I am not personally a parent. But I do have two godchildren and am expecting a third. I am naturally concerned for their future. If I ruled the world you could bet your boots that none of them would ever set their eyes on any such contraptions as digital clocks and pocket calculators. But alas, I do not rule the world and that, I am afraid, is the story of my life - always a godmother, never a God.

A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.

I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true.

Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.

We were not born to sue, but to command.

It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency.

I'm the person with the final say on everything. I really love being in that position.

The leadership definitely have to come from the leaders.

Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.

If you set the example you will not have to set the rules.

If you have power, you have to empower.

As a commander-in-chief what you do and what you say has real consequences.

Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

Power is the flower of organization.

A manager can't act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!

If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?

Lists are a form of power.