All Quotes

Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting.
‐‐ Bill Simmons

Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It's profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to protect themselves.
‐‐ Robert Harris

Leaders understand that the real fight is the fight against time. There's so much to achieve in such less time.
‐‐ Robin S. Sharma

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
‐‐ Tom Peters

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

Leaders who fail are the ones who do it by themselves. Leaders who succeed are the ones who allow others to help them.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy

Leadership and management are not synonymous.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
‐‐ Vance Packard

Leadership can change its mind; leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced.
‐‐ Ehud Barak

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.
‐‐ Junior Seau

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
‐‐ Harold S. Geneen

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
‐‐ Carly Fiorina

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
‐‐ Lewis H. Lapham

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.
‐‐ Chester W. Nimitz

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.
‐‐ Alan Autry

Leadership does matter.
‐‐ Mark Rutte

Leadership does not depend on being right.
‐‐ Ivan Illich

Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.
‐‐ Douglas Conant

Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
‐‐ Joseph Nye

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson

Leadership has a price.
‐‐ Paul Gosar

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.
‐‐ Michael Oxley

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
‐‐ Hubert H. Humphrey

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
‐‐ John Naisbitt

Leadership is a choice, not a position.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

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.
‐‐ Tom Landry

Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demonstrate leadership in our work and within our lives.
‐‐ Robin S. Sharma

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
‐‐ Norman Schwarzkopf

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
‐‐ Mwai Kibaki

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

Leadership is about being a servant first.
‐‐ Allen West

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
‐‐ N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
‐‐ Bob Ehrlich

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
‐‐ Zainab Salbi

Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.
‐‐ Martin O'Malley

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
‐‐ Seth Berkley

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.
‐‐ Andy Stanley

Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership - it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.
‐‐ Richard Foster

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.
‐‐ Bill Owens

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.
‐‐ Mike Krzyzewski

Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It's about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, 'I could have done three things better yesterday.'
‐‐ Jeffrey R. Immelt

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
‐‐ J. Donald Walters

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
‐‐ Larry Bird