Leadership Quotes

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

The first key to leadership is self-control.

War is an option of difficulties.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

Some are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you, or would you rather not bother?

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.

Leaders will not experience long-term success unless a lot of people want them to.

Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are ridiculously in charge, then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them.

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.

The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

The dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period.

Listen more than you talk.

God is always at work, though we cannot see it, preparing people he has chosen for leadership. When the crisis comes, God fits His appointee into the place ordained for him.

Leadership is the readiness to stand out in a crowd.

Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.

Leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. it is not just about you. It's all about them.... everyone deserves a chance.... you can never let yourself be a victim.

A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness.

The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.

Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.

A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.

It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.

We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow.

Iraq should commit itself to implement the U.N. resolutions, and the Iraqi leadership should put the interests of its people into consideration.

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

I have no idea what I did. I heard people talk about dead leg, shake, change of pace and all that, but I did things without thinking about them.

Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Guard your integrity as if it's your most precious leadership possession, because that is what it is.

Enthusiasm is something you can't fake, and it has a tremendous effect on everyone around you.

Influence is about being genuine.

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have men-only leadership.

Leaders must know where they are going if they expect others to willingly join them on the journey.