42 Leadership Quotes From Bishop T.D. Jakes and Strive Masiyawa – 2018 Global Leadership Summit

The following are 42 Leadership Quotes From Bishop T.D. Jakes and Strive Masiyawa – 2018 Global Leadership Summit:

Bishop T.D. Jakes

1. A vision should be a little bit annoying.
2. If you have a vision everyone believes in it’s too small.  You should have a vision you can only tell to a few people
3. My father was everything he could be to feed our family.
4. I am amazed at anyone who stands on the ground, looks up at the air and says, “I belong up there.”
5. You think something that scares you.
6. You need to think something you can’t pay for.
7. When we are petrified, we are also electrified.
8. The greatest things that happened in our country were done by people who didn’t have enough but thought deep enough.
9. Big things happen in small places.  Sometimes you can have a great idea in the wrong place.
10. What really stimulates growth is losing.  You will learn more from losing than you will with winning.
11. Never count failure as wasted time.
12. The Wright Brothers were inspired by eagles.
13. Eaglets learn to fly not by flying, but falling.
14. To believe excuses can no longer be fences for achievement brings possibilities.
15. They laugh at you when you get started but they’ll take pictures of you when your finished.

Bishop T.D. Jakes and Strive Masiyawa, Chairman of Econet, Fortune’s of World’s 50 Greatest Leaders

1. You can’t achieve good times until you survive bad times. – TJ
2. 75% of people on the African continent had never heard a telephone right.
3. June 1994.  On the eve of stating this business I became a Christian.
4. On my desk were two documents – the Bible and the constitution of my country.
5. In America, we see colors more than cultures. – TJ
6. Values are universal.  So you can take your values beyond your faith.
7. You haven’t visited a country until you have been in the house of someone in that country.
8. Build on your commonalities. – TJ
9. If your business becomes someone’s answer, they will seek you out. – TJ
10. Today, 75% of Africans have a mobile phone.  More Africans have a cell phone than Anerica and Europe combined.
11. To be a success, find a problem and solve it.
12. Cut your vision to the continuity of a human need. – TJ
13. Education is ground zero but that education must have purpose.
14. Philanthropy properly viewed is investment. – TJ
15. The intellectual prowess of the next generation is what we will depend on when we are needy. – TJ
16. I’m raising my children to think for themselves but one day (when I’m old) think for me. – TJ
17. A dream often dies when shared amongst people who have not seen what you have seen. – TJ
18. The biggest challenge we have in the world is we’re not exposed to each other sufficiently.
19. Every major move has come from someone who said something, not texted something.
20. I’ve never done a major deal that met a deadline.
21. A great vision is only as good as your day-to-day short-term wins.  Consistency is the bridge which connects the day-to-day wins.
22. If you know how to do something you will always have a job.  If you know why you do something, people will always work for you. – John Maxwell
23. Consistency is what marks a successful path.  It helps you not forget where you want to go.
24. You must always have a core of people who believe in you but will challenge you.
25. I cannot interact with my children as a chairman of a company.  They will run away.
26. I want my children to be almost reverent of the people who works for us.
27. The best of our people are our volunteers.  They could be anywhere else in the world but they came to us.

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