Leadership Quotes

My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.

Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

Professional trust is a process, not a state.

The economists who have put the spotlight on teacher quality are the ones who most misunderstand it.

We should test prudently; not profligately.

Educational reforms are like ripe fruit. They rarely travel well.

When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.

The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.

Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

The economy is very different in the world that we're living in. And I think Americans are looking for executive leadership that actually has some experience of creating jobs.

Only do what only you can do.

Leadership is not always about getting things done 'right.' Leadership is about getting things done through other people.

Your leadership depends on you. You can only be a great leader when you can lead yourself well first.

You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.

Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.

It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.

There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.

Friendship, harmony, and leadership - pushin' people, just givin' people that push, like I would expect them to do for me, they'd do the same for me in return.

I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he fled, [because] that is what he faced.

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.

When a natural king becomes a titular king, every body is pleased and satisfied.

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

Don't wait to be a great man; be a great boy!

Me and Sandra are thoroughly satisfied customers as parents of kids who came through this Orange model.

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?

Francois Hollande is the president of France. He got all sorts of accolades for his leadership in France after the Paris attacks.

Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership.

It is a bad situation, the current state of the Labour leadership, a collective failure, the collapse of strategy and vision on all sides.

Two primary ways to keep volunteers motivated - Food and T-shirts.

Who are you and what breaks your heart?

Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.

Leaders love progress.

Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.

There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.

The more you expect from a volunteer the more you get.

In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.

In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.

We always have more ideas than we can fund.

In Sales, you have to satisfy two people: One, your customer. Two, your Boss.

Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom.

The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.

You are where you are because the generation before you paid attention to their broken heart.