top of page
.png){kind=small}
Leadership Quotes
"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."
14
"Your bread assumes the shape of the pan in which you bake your flour. Therefore stand still and know that you can't use a rounded pan and ever get squared bread. Change the pan and get your desired shape of the bread!"
14
"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
14
"If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening!"
14
"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."
14
"If your vision is great, you become great."
14
"I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders."
14
"On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul."
14
"To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going."
13
"Character matters; leadership descends from character."
13
"The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action."
13
"Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers."
13
"They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher."
13
"The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire."
13
"While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face."
13
"Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people."
13
"I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness."
13
"I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?"
13
"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."
13
"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."
13
"The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing."
13
"The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them."
13
"Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you."
13
"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself."
13
"We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership."
13
"I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires."
13
"We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised."
13
"If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything."
13
"For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would."
13
"The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?"
13
"Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP."
13
"The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler."
13
"All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people."
13
"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control."
13
"I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change."
13
"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."
13
"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."
13
"Leaders reject free opportunities they don't need, so that they can have time to create the expensive opportunities they need."
13
"To really care about others, we have to understand them - what they like and dislike, what they feel as well as think. Emotion drives both men and women and influences every decision we make. Recognizing the role emotions play and being willing to discuss them makes us better managers, partners, and peers."
13
"The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength."
13
"We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity."
13
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
13
"One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process."
13
"You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it."
13
"I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences."
13
"For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship."
13
"I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years."
13
"More than power is respect. Fortunate are those who command it."
13
"The statesman received us with that old-fashioned courtesy for which he is remarkable, and seated us on the two luxuriant lounges on either side of the fireplace. Standing on the rug between us, with his slight, tall figure, his sharp features, thoughtful face, and curling hair prematurely tinged with gray, he seemed to represent that not too common type, a nobleman who is in truth noble."
13
bottom of page