Top 100 Leadership Business Quotes
#1. As president, I will stand up to the great human rights tests of our time - in China, Russia, and the Middle East. We must send a signal to our allies and adversaries that America is back in the leadership business.
Carly Fiorina
#2. For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.
Andrew Griffin
#3. If you can 'hire tough,' you can 'manage easy.
Sue Tetzlaff
#4. For associations to emerge healthy and strong, they must re-engage with their members around the heart-centered why of why they exist, leverage current leadership, and build future leadership while they integrate the balance of technology and face-to-face experiences.
Holly Duckworth
#5. Where do business leaders turn for advice to improve their leadership skills? Many successful leaders like Dan Cathy, President and COO of Chick-fil-A turn to the Bible. Speaking at Trinity College in Illinois, "Cathy discussed how scripture dictates Chick-fil-A's business plan.
R.J. Stepansky
#7. Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.
Lee Ellis
#8. The key difference between captain and coach? The latter's opportunities for influence come at moments when play isn't happening,
Carolyn Taylor
#9. President Roosevelt's leadership put the world on notice that the United States of America - with the freest, most dynamic economy the world had ever seen - was open for business.
John Hoeven
#10. Leaders are never measured by their success but rather by the success of those they've been entrusted to lead. Therefore, a leader can never be considered successful until those they lead are successful.
Greg Cagle
#11. Besides, that MBA is a Masters of Business Administration, not a Masters of Business Leadership.
Dave Anderson
#12. But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict
Ronald A. Heifetz
#13. It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.
John Harvey-Jones
#14. In order to sustain the integrity of the organization, a business must dedicate time and resources to education, leadership development, and personnel development. Don't focus on the product. Focus on the team.
Robert Kiyosaki
#15. When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.
Paul Gibbons
#16. We can never fall short when it comes to recruiting, hiring, maintaining and growing our workforce. It is the employees who make our organization's success a reality.
Vern Dosch
#17. As is often the case with children, the rule of 'monkey see, monkey do' plays out in the workplace. It's hard to be good role model, and it's one of the greatest challenges of leadership.
Lee Ellis
#18. Every action has an impact; choose wisely the impact you want to have.
Mindy Hall
#20. An honorable leader must demonstrate a willingness to reveal his or her 'inner self' to their team. It builds trust and trust is essential. It's also a sign of strength and authenticity, and people are attracted to those who are 'real' and authentic.
Lee Ellis
#21. Not every gift must you stretch your hands to take! Sometimes, just put your hands by your side and humbly and courageously say thank you!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#22. Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.
Brandi L. Bates
#23. Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.
David J. Greer
#24. If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then be different from your peers.
Jack Ma
#25. Disengaged employees are an unfortunate reality in the workplace, and poor leadership is often to blame.
W.Chan Kim
#26. My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq
Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution
#27. Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long.
Lolly Daskal
#28. Leadership produces change. That is its primary function
John P. Kotter
#29. Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn't regard yourself as a weakling.
Jack Ma
#30. If you find a community with less production and less inspiring inventions, then know it is a sign of lack of Business Leaders and full of General Managers do not know what they can manage or what they are managing.
Sameh Elsayed
#31. Let's form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we'll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.
Ryan Lilly
#32. One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow
#33. You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.
Steve Jobs
#34. No! Leadership is not the business of people who need to be motivated!
Amit Chatterjee
#35. Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.
Paul Gibbons
#36. Digital-savvy CIOs can envision the upcoming business trends and have both "sense and sensitivity" to understand people and lead effortlessly.
Pearl Zhu
#37. A Board can be harmonized through leadership humility, insightful business understanding, trustful culture, and learning agility.
Pearl Zhu
#38. Every time you invite a candidate to interview, you should expect to be interviewed, too.
Stacy Feiner
#39. Culture is what happens when the managers are not around.
Pearl Zhu
#40. I define leadership as: Emotionally, you own your business. You own it with passion. And you either have or you don't have an economic investment. But when you have all three of those, you are the boss from Day One, and you care every single day more than anyone.
Mickey Drexler
#41. Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
(Harvard Business School definition of leadership)
Sheryl Sandberg
#42. The future is dependent on the decisions you make today.
Omer Soker
#43. There is no mystery about successful business ... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.
Charles William Eliot
#44. If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.
Sheryl Sandberg
#45. If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.
Tom Rath
#46. Look inward for solutions to your greatest challenges.
Omer Soker
#47. Your personal growth, how you show up, and the ways you lead ultimately determine the success of your business and your life.
David J. Greer
#48. Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the moment. (Moments: Making Your Life Count For What Matters Most, Mike Van Hoozer)
Mike Van Hoozer
#49. In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.
Mary Cunningham Agee
#50. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
Sheryl Sandberg
#51. Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Jack Welch
#52. Find the right people, not the best people.
Jack Ma
#53. Always let your employees come to work with a smile.
Jack Ma
#54. What most new entrepreneurs don't realize is that before you can lead a business, or a family, or a ministry, or even just another person, you have to be the leader of yourself, first.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#55. A good businessman knows how to make a profit. An engineer makes sure it runs well. We need more leaders who are task oriented.
Phil Mitchell
#56. Scout out competitors' websites. Everything your competitors think is important or relevant usually exists on their website.
John Manning
#57. Dr. Prem, a world renowned speaker delivers flawless speeches on various topics including leadership, public speaking, business management and global healthcare. Dr. Prem is well informed and his speeches are well researched.
David Nelson
#58. An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow.
Bruce Barton
#59. Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.
Ordway Tead
#60. It takes healthy, resilient leaders and employees to achieve great results.
Sue Tetzlaff
#61. Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone
Tom Rath
#62. Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.
Epictetus
#63. The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.
Chris Matthews
#64. We must practice consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate and even courteous communication every single day to successfully sustain, develop and grow our business.
Kip Tindell
#65. 21st Century Managers must change their thinking because they are now in the business of managing Mindsets & thinking, which impacts actions and behaviors.
Tony Dovale
#66. Don't even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible
Jack Ma
#67. Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
Ibrahim Babangida
#68. Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.
Pope Francis
#69. Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
David Rockefeller
#70. I always have my own opinion before my boss says his.
Gerry Geek
#71. Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.
Crystal Woods
#72. Part-time effort means part-tim results.
Tony Curl
#73. If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of at
least a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies follow
your business approach, you are certainly an important manager with
leader characteristics.
Eraldo Banovac
#74. Give us a world where half our homes are run by men, and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world.
Sheryl Sandberg
#75. To the degree that one relates sensitively, appropriately, and even charmingly, to the people and events faced in business and personal life, success will follow.
Herman L Glaess
#76. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
Mark W. Boyer
#77. It's through diverse opinions and perspectives that a dynamic organisation can drive innovation and create its competitive advantage.
Craig Dent
#78. In the world of business, being slow is a losing move.
Shawn Casemore
#79. Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.
Andrew Griffin
#80. It is the leader's job to lead by example and enforce the values and the behaviors to set the culture for any company or work group. Show me a company in rapid decline, and I will show you someone in charge who doesn't give a _.
Beth Ramsay
#81. A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
Harry S. Truman
#83. The efforts of a leader will be emulated. Depending on the quality of appointed leadership, this can be medicine or poison to a living business.
Steve Maraboli
#84. CIOs need to be IT evangelists and learn to sell, speak business.
Pearl Zhu
#85. A business is an army;
you are the general,
and your subordinates are your troops.
Victory is achieving your goals.
Great victory is surpassing your goals.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#86. At least half the job of CEO is communication - because of human nature. People fear what they don't know. If the board wasn't hearing that things were going well, they assumed that things must be going badly.
Biz Stone
#87. Xerox's innovative technology and service offerings - delivered through an expanding distribution system with a lean and flexible business model - continue to solidify our market leadership, driving consistently strong earnings performance.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#88. The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities.
Jack Ma
#89. Although individuals need not be well-rounded, teams should be.
Tom Rath
#90. Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool.
Arianna Huffington
#91. Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
Stephen Covey
#92. Don't buy into the campaign that people don't like change. We are built for it.
Stacy Feiner
#93. The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.
Paul Gibbons
#96. You cannot be a modern association without a contemporary board.
Omer Soker
#97. Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.
Steve Daines
#98. There are no perfect decisions, only excellent applications.
Todd Stocker
#99. Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!
George E. M. Kelly
#100. Simply thinking creatively is not the same as being innovative, and only those who risk breaking out of their comfort zone by putting thought into action will discover the profusion of opportunity that exists.
Michael Lum
