Leadership Quotes

I gave (my drivers) three things: a sense of optimism, a creative environment, and the ultimate motivator-competition. By competing with each other in-house, we wound up beating our rivals.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-Tung.

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their weaknesses, and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title

Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others.

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

One man's Poison Ivy is another Fellow's Spinach.

Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish.

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Be a leader, not a superior.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.