All Quotes

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
‐‐ Laurence J. Peter

Lead from the front.
‐‐ Audie Murphy

Lead levels exceeding federal thresholds pose a serious public health threat, particularly for more vulnerable populations.
‐‐ Elizabeth Esty

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
‐‐ Rita Mae Brown

Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along.
‐‐ Paul Giamatti

Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.
‐‐ Martha Reeves

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.
‐‐ Laurence Olivier

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
‐‐ Sam Levenson

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.
‐‐ Dee Hock

Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.
‐‐ Mario Teguh

Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
‐‐ Roger McGuinn

Leader Reid is doing a horrendous job.
‐‐ Phil Gingrey

Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that?
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
‐‐ Vince Lombardi

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
‐‐ James MacGregor Burns

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
‐‐ Henry A. Kissinger

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
‐‐ Robert Jarvik

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

Leaders at the top of al Qaeda's hierarchy, the evidence shows, completed plans and obtained the materials required to manufacture two biological toxins - botulinum and salmonella - and the chemical poison cyanide.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.
‐‐ Jacqueline Novogratz

Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes.
‐‐ Jack Canfield

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
‐‐ John W. Gardner

Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
‐‐ Bob Ehrlich

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
‐‐ Tom Peters

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.
‐‐ John P. Kotter

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.
‐‐ Frederick W. Smith

Leaders grasp nettles.
‐‐ David Ogilvy

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
‐‐ Andy Grove

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.
‐‐ Stokely Carmichael

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.
‐‐ Nelson Mandela

Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate students into the unemployment line by teaching skills that were necessary to live in 1950.
‐‐ Michio Kaku

Leaders in the realm of religious activity are to be judged by their praying habits and not by their money or social position. Those who must be placed in the forefront of the Church's business must be, first of all, men who know how to pray.
‐‐ Edward McKendree Bounds

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.
‐‐ Tony Blair

Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.
‐‐ Jeb Bush

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
‐‐ Henry A. Kissinger

Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.
‐‐ Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.
‐‐ Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

Leaders need to be thinking constantly about what they're doing to create a basic sense of security and stability throughout an organization.
‐‐ Tom Rath

Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.
‐‐ Don Tapscott

Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.
‐‐ Pope Francis

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
‐‐ Anita Borg

Leaders receive and give assignments. This is an important part of the necessary principle of delegating. No one appreciates a willing volunteer more than I, but the total work cannot be done as the Lord wants it done merely by those doing the work who may be present at meetings.
‐‐ James E. Faust

Leaders set a very clear path every day, in a thousand different ways, of what the people must attend to, inhibit, and keep it current in front of them.
‐‐ Henry Cloud

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.
‐‐ Bill Bradley

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
‐‐ H. G. Wells

Leaders should not just talk about - but walk the walk of - fiscal conservatism.
‐‐ Michael Enzi