Mohammed Bin Rashid Leadership Quotes & Sayings

Our region is home to more than 200 million young people. We have the opportunity to inspire them with hope and to direct their energies toward improving their lives and the lives of those around them. If we fail, we will abandon them to emptiness, unemployment, and the malicious ideologies of terrorism. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Change or you will be changed: leaders who neglect the good of their people will be forsaken. Leadership is a service, not a gateway to privilege. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Today's Arab crisis is not one of money, men, morale, land or resources ... The real crisis is rather one of leadership, management and perennial egotism. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Good leadership puts the interests of the community as a whole before those of any specific group. Credibility of leadership can only be established through action and not words. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

His request to those listening was to start every day knowing that each minute lost is one that they will never get back and use that thought to drive them forward. This is what resonates most with this writer about our beloved Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid, he is a force of positive energy that the world is in dire need of. Therefore, when people ponder about what it is that makes the government of the United Arab Emirates different one can safely reach the conclusion that, Mohammed Bin Rashid is the difference. — Aysha Taryam

The future does not wait for hesitant people. The more we achieve, the more we realise how much more we can achieve. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

To take risk and fail is not a failure. Real failure is to fear taking any risk — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Your determination and energy will be proportionate to your goal. Therefore, set a high goal for yourself and do not settle for anything less than the very best. The best is exactly what you will get if you accept no less. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Our vision is sharp, our goals are clear, our resources are huge, our will is strong and we stand tall, ready to face the challenges ahead. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Dubai was founded on trade, not oil. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Without a vision to guide our path, and without ambition that knows no limits, we can never build a bright future for generations to come. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

I believe that positive energy and optimism help us to take up any challenge in life and to succeed in even the most difficult tasks. I also believe that positive energy is contagious: we can transmit it to others. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Whoever convinces himself that he is not worthy of first position has doomed himself to failure from the very beginning. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Competition always makes you stronger and better. Competition is feared only by the weak. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Good governance is about nothing more or less than creating happiness. It really is that simple. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

A true leader does not derive power from his position, but from his ethics, from people's love for him, and from his knowledge, education and excellence in his field of work. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

The race for excellence has no finish line. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Life is an extraordinary gift some people appear not to appreciate. In every breath and scent, every touch and sight we are gifted by new experience and the chance to feel the richness of experience. Every sound we hear, from the song of a bird to the harshness of an angry voice, is a miracle. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Helping those less fortunate than us is a blessed opportunity to show thanks for the gifts of life that we ourselves enjoy. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

I have said it loud and clear: Beware, men, lest women deprive you of all the leadership positions in the country. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Every nation can harness the energy of its citizens, either towards constructive work to generate optimism and hope, or towards tensions, unrest and war. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

A true leader is one who creates a favourable environment to bring out the energy and ability of his team. A great leader creates more great leaders, and does not reduce the institution to a single person. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Everybody starts small. We all begin life as a single cell. Every business starts as one person with an idea. How fast you go, how far you get, is in your hands. The bigger your vision, the bigger your achievement will be. Will you stumble on the way? Perhaps, but we cannot let fear keep us small. We have to be brave to be big. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Every single achievement you make, every single life you change and every single skill you acquire brings you one step closer to becoming a better leader. Every day you can improve the leader in you to become a better person and a greater leader. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

I might go easy on people who make mistakes, but never on people who make no effort. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum