Leadership Quotes

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

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

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

Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.

I Am Really Gifted To Play Under The Leadership Of MS Dhoni.

Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

It's not about you. It's about them.

Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow.

To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

It is not about knowing, but about living.

The more the level of insecurity is reduced, the more the level of faith will grow.

Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.

The spiritual leader should outpace the rest of the church, above all, in prayer.

I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation.

Progress does not occur without change.

Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership.

While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.

Successful people do what is right no matter how they feel, and by doing right, they feel good.

The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

Don't mistake activity for achievement - practice the right way. - John Wooden I only play well when I'm prepared. If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures

Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

The essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers.

A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.

Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character