Leader Quotes

We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run.

The best leaders are humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their people.

Politics and religious leaders [are hindered] by their egotism.

Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.

I want somebody athletic, outgoing, at least two inches taller than I am, rugged, very outdoorsy, a leader, someone who would overpower me.

Leaders are forced to kill all the time. Then they have to learn to live with the decisions they make. Just like I'm going to learn to live with mine.

Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

Leaders take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

Birds of a feather really do flock together.

Not everybody who has a vision is a leader, but every leader has a vision.

Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil.

Grow a leader-grow the organization. A company cannot grow without until its leaders grow within.

Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.

A true leader produces more leaders.

When we become leaders, we sometimes think we are now supposed to have the answers. Yes, we may have some answers, but we will be more effective when we engage others and get their opinions.

Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

God's leaders should be motivated by humility and love.

There is no success without a successor.

The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp. That won't happen so quickly in Russia.

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

Good leaders are scarce; so I'm following myself.

I've always managed by walking around. Any CEO or leader who spends the majority of his time in his office is not doing his job.

Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.

To be a great leader, first become a great person.

Leaders anticipate. Losers react

Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it.

Canada has always been ready for the truth. I think they actually appreciate a politician or anybody as a leader who tells the truth.

The world needs someone to look up to-like you. A national leader remarked, "There comes a time when we must take a stand-when we draw a line in the dust and say, 'Beyond this line, we do not go.'"

If you want to be a leader, you've got to be a reader.

There is no apology from any Muslim leader for all the massacres of Christians

What we are looking for is managers who are awake enough to alter the world as they find it, to make it harmonize with what they and their people are trying to accomplish.

The United States is the leader of the free world.

A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it.

If you can't toot your own horn, toot another woman's! It's the best way to elevate women to be leaders.

All leaders are permanent learners.

Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.

We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.

In the hands of vicious men, a mob will do anything. But under good leaders it's quite a different story.

Great leaders don't play by the existing rules.

Americans ... want leaders who share their values, understand their needs, and respect their intelligence.

As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.

I'm not always thinking and working ... I think a leader has to really be a balanced, whole and healthy person personally in order to be the best leader on the job.

Smart leaders believe only half of what they hear. Discerning leaders know which have to believe.

Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.