List Of Leadership Quotes

The Person Who Knows How Will Always Have A Job. The Person Who Knows Why Will Always Be His Boss.

A Man Always Has Two Reasons For Doing Anything: A Good Reason And The Real Reason.

Leaders Make Decisions That Create The Future They Desire.

In Motivating People, You've Got To Engage Their Minds And Their Hearts. I Motivate People, I Hope, By Example - And Perhaps By Excitement, By Having Productive Ideas To Make Others Feel Involved.

If I Take Care Of My Character, My Reputation Will Take Care Of Me.

Good Leadership Is About The Company's Success, Not Your Own.

My Own Definition Of Leadership Is This: The Capacity And The Will To Rally Men And Women To A Common Purpose And The Character Which Inspires Confidence.

Never Forget That Only Dead Fish Swim With The Stream.

Do Not Tell Them How To Do It. Show Them How To Do It And Do Not Say A Word. If You Tell Them, They Will Watch Your Lips Move. If You Show Them, They Will Want To Do It Themselves.

In The Birth Of Societies It Is The Chiefs Of States Who Give It Its Special Character; And Afterward It Is This Special Character That Forms The Chiefs Of State.

To Become Truly Great, One Has To Stand With People, Not Above Them.

By 1962, King Had Become, By The Media's Reckoning, The New Civil Rights Leader.

Some Are Young People Who Don't Know Who They Are, What They Can Be Or Even Want To Be. They Are Afraid, But They Don't Know Of What. They Are Angry, But They Don't Know At Whom. They Are Rejected And They Don't Know Why. All They Want Is To Be Somebody.

The Power To Lead Is The Power To Mislead, And The Power To Mislead Is The Power To Destroy.

Practice The Game The Way You're Going To Play The Game. Practice Hard And Play Hard. Run Hard And Above All Else, Hustle Every Moment You're On The Field Where You Are Practicing Or Playing In A Game.

My Power Vanishes Into Thin Air The Instant That My Fellow Citizens, Who Are Straight And Honest, Cease To Believe That I Represent Them And Fight For What Is Straight And Honest. That Is All The Strength That I Have.

The Stream Will Not Permanently Rise Higher Than The Main Source; And The Main Source Of National Power And National Greatness Is Found In The Average Citizenship Of The Nation. Therefore It Behooves Us To Do Our Best To See That The Standard Of The Average Citizen Is Kept High; And The Average Cannot Be Kept High Unless The Standard Of The Leaders Is Very Much Higher.

Jamal Crawford Reminds Me The Most Of Myself, The Way He Goes To The Basket. But They Need Leadership.

If A Strong Man Has Not In Him The Lift Toward Lofty Things, His Strength Makes Him Only A Curse To Himself And His Neighbor.

The Mathematical Facts Worthy Of Being Studied Are Those Which, By Their Analogy With Other Facts, Are Capable Of Leading Us To The Knowledge Of A Physical Law. They Reveal The Kinship Between Other Facts, Long Known, But Wrongly Believed To Be Strangers To One Another.

The Leader Works In The Open And The Boss In Covert. The Leader Leads, And The Boss Drives.

People Ask The Difference Between A Leader And A Boss. The Leader Leads, And The Boss Drives.

The Best Executive Is One Who Has Sense Enough To Pick Good People To Do What He Wants Done, And Self-restraint Enough To Keep From Meddling With Them While They Do It.

No Man Is Worth His Salt Who Is Not Ready At All Times To Risk His Well-being, To Risk His Body, To Risk His Life, In A Great Cause.

He Who Makes No Mistakes Makes No Progress.

Speak Softly And Carry A Big Stick; You Will Go Far.

Nobody Cares How Much You Know, Until They Know How Much You Care.

To Educate A Man In Mind And Not In Morals Is To Educate A Menace To Society.

Frankly, I Do Not Know How To Effect A Permanency In American Foreign Policy.

It Is A Terrible Thing To Look Over Your Shoulder When You Are Trying To Lead - And Find No One There.

A Good Leader Can't Get Too Far Ahead Of His Followers.

The School Is The Last Expenditure Upon Which America Should Be Willing To Economize.

The Presidency Is Not Merely An Administrative Office. Thats The Least Of It. It Is More Than An Engineering Job, Efficient Or Inefficient. It Is Pre-eminently A Place Of Moral Leadership. All Our Great Presidents Were Leaders Of Thought At Times When Certain Historic Ideas In The Life Of The Nation Had To Be Clarified.

The Presidency Is Not Merely An Administrative Office...it Is Pre-eminently A Place Of Moral Leadership.

It Is Common Sense To Take A Method And Try It. If It Fails, Admit It Frankly And Try Another. But Above All, Try Something.

The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Fear Itself.

Spiritual Leadership Should Remain Spiritual Leadership And The Temporal Power Should Not Become Too Important In Any Church.

Perhaps In His Wisdom The Almighty Is Trying To Show Us That A Leader May Chart The Way, May Point Out The Road To Lasting Peace, But That Many Leaders And Many Peoples Must Do The Building.

It Is Not Fair To Ask Of Others What You Are Not Willing To Do Yourself.

The Mind Is Not A Vessel To Be Filled But A Fire To Be Kindled.

To Handle Yourself, Use Your Head; To Handle Others, Use Your Heart.

It Is Better To Light A Candle Than Curse The Darkness.

A Good Leader Inspires People To Have Confidence In The Leader, A Great Leader Inspires People To Have Confidence In Themselves.

Leadership - Leadership Is About Taking Responsibility, Not Making Excuses.

Central To America's Rise To Global Leadership Is Our Judeo-christian Tradition With The Vision Of The Goodness And Possibilities Of Every Human Life.

My Leadership Will End The Obama Era And Begin A New Era Of American Prosperity.

America Cannot Continue To Lead The Family Of Nations Around The World If We Suffer The Collapse Of The Family Here At Home.

They Lead Only As The Carved Wooden Figurehead Leads The Ship.

In A Hierarchy, Every Employee Tends To Rise To His Level Of Incompetence.

Most Hierarchies Are Nowadays So Cumbered With Rules And Traditions, And So Bound In By Public Laws, That Even High Employees Do Not Have To Lead Anyone Anywhere, In The Sense Of Pointing Out The Direction And Setting The Pace. They Simply Follow Precedents, Obey Regulations, And Move At The Head Of The Crowd. Such Employees Lead Only In The Sense That The Curved Wooden Figurehead Leads The Ship .

The Place To Improve The World Is First In One's Own Heart And Head And Hands.

I Wasn't Much Good. When I Went Into The Line On A Fake - I Would Holler 'i Don't Have It!'

I Am Proud To Live In A Country With An African-american President. But President Obama Cannot Be Proud Of The Fact That The Prevalence Of Black Poverty Has Actually Increased Under His Leadership. The Specific Policies Advanced By The President And His Allies On The Left Amount To Little More Than Throwing Money At The Problem And Walking Away.

In The Worst Of Times The Best Among Us Never Lose Their Moral Compass, And That Is How They Emerge Relatively Unscathed.

To 'turn Around' Is To End Up Facing The Same Way. Maybe That Is The Problem, All The Turning Organizations Around.

Empowerment Is What Managers Do To People. Engagement Is What Managers Do With People.

Leadership, Like Swimming, Cannot Be Learned By Reading About It.

Understanding Your Employee's Perspective Can Go A Long Way Towards Increasing Productivity And Happiness.

We Could All Use A Little Coaching. When You're Playing The Game, It's Hard To Think Of Everything.

Leaders Must Learn To Discipline Their Disappointments. It's Not What Happens To Us, It Is What We Choose To Do About What Happens That Makes The Difference In How Our Lives Turn Out.

Inventories Can Be Managed, But People Must Be Led.

Leaders Must Understand That Some People Will Inevitably Sell Out To The Evil Side. Don't Waste Your Time Wondering Why; Spend Your Time Discovering Who.

The Goal Of An Effective Leader Is To Recondition Your Team To Be Solution Focused Rather Than Problem Focused.

Never Ask Anyone To Do What You Haven't Done Before And Wouldn't Do Again. That's A Pretty Fundamental Rule In Leadership... Treat Them Like You Treat Yourself. Things You Don't Like, They Don't Like.

Business Is Not Just Doing Deals; Business Is Having Great Products, Doing Great Engineering, And Providing Tremendous Service To Customers. Finally, Business Is A Cobweb Of Human Relationships.

If You See A Snake, Just Kill It - Don't Appoint A Committee On Snakes.

A Good Objective Of Leadership Is To Help Those Who Are Doing Poorly To Do Well And To Help Those Who Are Doing Well To Do Even Better.

As A Leader You Should Always Start With Where People Are Before You Try To Take Them To Where You Want Them To Go.

Leaders, Whether In The Family, In Business, In Government, Or In Education, Must Not Allow Themselves To Mistake Intentions For Accomplishments .

Leadership Is The Challenge To Be Something More Than Average.

If You Share A Good Idea Long Enough, It Will Eventually Fall On Good People.

The Challenge Of Leadership Is To Be Strong, But Not Rude; Be Kind, But Not Weak; Be Bold, But Not Bully; Be Thoughtful, But Not Lazy; Be Humble, But Not Timid; Be Proud, But Not Arrogant; Have Humor, But Without Folly.

Give Whatever You Are Doing And Whoever You Are With The Gift Of Your Attention.

Managers Help People See Themselves As They Are; Leaders Help People To See Themselves Better Than They Are.

My Philosophy Of Leadership Is To Surround Myself With Good People Who Have Ability, Judgment And Knowledge, But Above All, A Passion For Service.

A Leader Or A Man Of Action In A Crisis Almost Always Acts Subconsciously And Then Thinks Of The Reasons For His Action.

But Me Thought It Lessened My Esteem Of A King, That He Should Not Be Able To Command The Rain.

Honor Bespeaks Worth. Confidence Begets Trust. Service Brings Satisfaction. Cooperation Proves The Quality Of Leadership.

There Is A Troublesome Humor Some Men Have, That If They May Not Lead, They Will Not Follow; But Had Rather A Thing Were Never Done, Than Not Done Their Own Way, Tho' Other Ways Very Desirable.

Always Drink Upstream From The Herd.

You've Got To Go Out On A Limb Sometimes Because That's Where The Fruit Is.

If America Ever Passes Out As A Great Nation, We Ought To Put On Our Tombstone: America Died From A Delusion She Had Moral Leadership.

I Am Not Looking For Perfection. I Look For The Best In Me.

I Believe In Servant Leadership, And The Servant Always Asks, 'where Am I Needed Most?'

Leadership Is Possible In All Different Ways, And In All Different Areas Of Life. Whether It Is With Friends Or Family, I Expect Them To Set A Great Example For Me, And Hopefully I Will Do The Same For Them. And That Is All Part Of Being A Leader.

I Would Do Almost Anything Tina Fey Asks Me To Do.

The Whole Bloody System Is Sick: The Very Notion Of Leadership, A Balloon With A Face Painted Upon It, Elected And Inflated By Media's Diabolic Need To Reduce Ideas To Personalities.

Speak Out, Educate, Do Not Be Intimidated By The Apologists, And Do Not Let Extreme Racism Be Mainstreamed. Hopefully There Will Come A Time When We Don't Need To Tell Our Kids That Halloween Is No Excuse For Hate, And That Blackface Has No Place In A Civilized Society.

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.

Leadership Involves Finding A Parade And Getting In Front Of It.

We Are Now Spending Half A Trillion Dollars On Foreign Oil, Importing 62 Percent Of The Oil We Use, And We Haven't Had The Leadership In D.c. To Do Anything About It. We've Got To Move To Other Sources Of Energy. But We've Gotten Way Behind, And Will Continue To Pay The Fiddler. It's Not A Good Future.

Be Willing To Make Decisions. That's The Most Important Quality In A Good Leader. Don't Fall Victim To What I Call The 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim Syndrome'. You Must Be Willing To Fire.

Democrats Have No Agenda, No Plan For The Future, And No Sense Of Leadership

Servant-leadership Is More Than A Concept, It Is A Fact. Any Great Leader, By Which I Also Mean An Ethical Leader Of Any Group, Will See Herself Or Himself As A Servant Of That Group And Will Act Accordingly.

Nothing Is A Waste Of Time If You Use The Experience Wisely.

The Real Leader Has No Need To Lead - He Is Content To Point The Way.

I Think The Leadership Of A Company Should Encourage The Next Generation Not Just To Follow, But To Overtake.

No Man Is Great Enough Or Wise Enough For Any Of Us To Surrender Our Destiny To. The Only Way In Which Anyone Can Lead Us Is To Restore To Us The Belief In Our Own Guidance.

You Have To Look At Leadership Through The Eyes Of The Followers And You Have To Live The Message.

Being Good Is Good Business