Leadership Quotes Quotes

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."

"It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership."

"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."

"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes."

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people."

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."

"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."

"Don't find fault, find a remedy."

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things."

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."

"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."

"Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses."

"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."

"People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything."

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

"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it."

"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them."

"To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them."

"You have to think anyway, so why not think big?"

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

"People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year."

"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it."

"If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully."

"High expectations are the key to everything."

"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade."

"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better."

"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily."

"Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players."

"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking."

"Go as far as you can see when you get there, you'll be able to see farther."

"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."

"Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level."

"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision."

"The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way."

"Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions."

"There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience."

"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."

"Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference."

"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves."

"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."

"Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing."

"In fair weather prepare for foul."

"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."

"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority."

"When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier."

"The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act."

"The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both."

"The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang."

"The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people."

"Doing is a quantum leap from imagining."

"Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard."

"I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much."

"The employer generally gets the employees he deserves."

"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."

"If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset."

"I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself."

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."

"Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success."

"You're only as good as the people you hire."

"It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime."

"The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects."

"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves."

"Every silver lining has a cloud."

"Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders."

"Strong convictions precede great actions."

"To succeed, one must be creative and persistent."

"What helps people, helps business."

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."

"You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart."

"You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power."

"Whatever ought to be, can be."

"The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it."

"The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from."

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt."

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

"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."

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen."

"You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it."

"Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model."

"Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed."

"You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership."

"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."

"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings."

"Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone."

"In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled."

"God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us."

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."

"My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity."

"Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life."

"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control."

"Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time."

"A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership."

"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."

"Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table."

"Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got."

"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together."

"Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far."