Leadership Quotes

When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.

Surround our children with a message of honor

Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children.

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.

I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.

Without a vision people in leadership positions perish. You not only lose your people, you lose the person who is in a leadership position - you lose it all.

Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams.

Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.

But the law of magnetism really is true: who you are is who you attract.

Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people wouldn't need you!

If you're not remarkable, you're invisible.

A sense of responsibility is the clearest indication of mature leadership.

Leadership isn't answering the questions others ask. Leadership is asking others to answer their own questions.

People want to see other people who have 'non-negotiables,' things for which they're willing to say, 'This is it' we take our stand right here.' That's a leadership quality which people respect.

White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.

Whatever God wants to do through you, He will do in you first. You've got to be what you want to see.

Results matter! They matter to your credibility.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.

The show is in the casting. Choose the right people.

The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.

Excellence Matters. Excellent people. Excellent vision. Excellent marketing. Excellent strategies.

Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.

Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it.

Francis Ford Coppola is completely unconventional. He has a strong sense of loyalty. Great eyes. It's a diabolical undertaking in terms of organization and leadership.

Effective leaders let people discover things for themselves.

We can walk together to change the status quo.

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.

The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.

First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop

more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it back to you and say it can't be done.

Our problem is not too little time, but making better use of the time we have. Each of us has as much time as anyone else.

First we become the best, then we'll become first.

They were unwillingly to give 100 percent if they didn't personally think it was important. What you don't understand is the champions know it's all important.

We are not responsible for our endowments or natural abilities, but we are responsible for the strategic use of time.

Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.

Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group.

At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.

The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.

True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear.