Leadership Quotes

Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.

I believe a big part of leadership is about winning the moment.

God is not a taker. God is a giver.

The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

In leadership, there are no words more important than trust.

It takes leaders to grow other leaders.

The idea of molding men means a lot to me.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice

Why wouldn't female Marines come forward? Because they don't trust us. They don't trust the command. They don't trust the leadership.

I hire talented, creative, passionate learners who have a history of turning intention into reality.

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.

How can we help my kids step into the shoes of another child?

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry

Noone's a leader if there are no followers.

I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?

The real leadership of the opposition is never, ever gonna do anything but continue to ramp up efforts to stop [Donald] Trump or destroy Trump.

You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?

Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.

In choosing a President, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy.

The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead.

The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

We will all be far better spouses, parents, and leaders as we take time to grow in prayer.

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

A change in leadership is required to produce a change in outcomes.

What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect.

Leadership is the art of creating a working climate that inspires others to achieve extraordinary goals and levels of performance.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self- importance.

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

It's a game of habit, or repetition. You can't play one way in practice and another way in a game. It's a reflex. The game is so quick you don't have time to think.

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.

Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal.

When your vision is a biblical vision, the people arguing with it are not arguing with you. They are arguing with God.

Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.

Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

Every country needs its heroes, and we must follow them.

The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.

The more I simplify my life, the happier I feel.

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.

Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.