Top 72 Leadership Decision Quotes
#1. The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.
Seth Godin
#2. Our world loses out when the leadership doesn't reflect the led - when a minority makes decisions for the majority.
Amy Richards
#3. Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.
Tony Robbins
#4. I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered.
Richard M. Nixon
#5. All through your life, you'll be faced with making a decision between two things-choose the one that is right. If they are both right, then choose the one that will make you feel the best about it at the end of the day.
Thomas Jefferson
#6. They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.
Stephen L. Carter
#7. Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter F. Drucker
#8. To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.
Denise Moreland
#9. What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision.
Sam Manekshaw
#10. The wisdom that comes from being conscious of the real threats to you and your mission will sharpen your deliberateness in decision & choice-making, associations and positioning.
Archibald Marwizi
#11. The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.
Paul Gibbons
#12. You don't become the person you wish to become; you become the person you choose to become. True leadership does not come true wishes; it comes by choices!
Israelmore Ayivor
#13. We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.
Daniel Kahneman
#14. Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.
M. Russell Ballard
#15. Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.
Mark Miller
#16. The true meaning of life lies in learning. When you learn, you understand the things better, when you understand the things better, it reflects in your actions, and when your actions are right, according to the process of life, you are bound to receive the desired result.
Roshan Sharma
#17. You had decided upon your course of action already. But that did not stop you from having a discussion, allowing us to be a part of the decision. Somehow, you guided us all into saying what you wanted to hear. And yet, you made each one of us feel as if it was our own decision. That is leadership.
Amish Tripathi
#18. Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.
Bill Gates
#19. Gen. Scott saw more through the eyes of his staff officers than through his own.
H.W. Brands
#20. That which a team does not want to discuss, it most needs to discuss.
Paul Gibbons
#21. Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.
George Friedman
#22. As a leader, I am there to make the best decisions possible with the evidence at hand and to be able to justify that decision. If it goes wrong, we add to the evidence for making the next decision, but there is no reason for regretting failure, as failure is just the production of evidence.
Michael A. Wood Jr.
#23. So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? ... I think our judgment has to be clearly not.
Colin Powell
#24. While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.
Rahm Emanuel
#25. The process is about leadership and about taking people to places that they cannot get to on their own, while they are still feeling comfortably in control of a buying decision
Michelle Moore
#26. Leaders make decisions that create the future they desire.
Mike Murdock
#27. Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.
Napoleon Hill
#28. As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.
Michelle Bachelet
#29. Decisiveness is the number one quality of a dynamic leader; his ability to communicate a decision with passion and integrity is an art form.
Farshad Asl
#30. If you just want to do something because it is a customary new year resolution, then soon enough the year will get a bit older, and the strength of your decision will also begin to wear off.
Archibald Marwizi
#31. The company's leadership plays a major role in framing the right questions for decision-making.
Pearl Zhu
#32. A great leader listens to other people's suggestions and opinions but a dogmatic leader dismisses them and sticks to his/her own decision.
Euginia Herlihy
#33. The difficulty was not that of following a moral principle at personal cost; the difficulty was that of knowing what to do when there is more than one principal, and when the principles clash.
Elton Trueblood
#34. If we are going to out-innovate, out-compete, out-educate other countries, it's going to be women who make a difference, it's women who are going to lead the way and you know, until women get that rightful place and decision making and leadership and growth, America won't realize all her potential.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#35. Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.
Paul Gibbons
#36. Core values serve as a lighthouse when the fog of life seems to leave you wandering in circles; when you encounter that moment where every decision is a tough one and no choice seems to clearly be the better choice.
J. Loren Norris
#37. He was responsible for administering an army that lacked time-tested procedures and routinized policies, so every decision became an improvisational act.
Joseph J. Ellis
#38. Competition is created from within, when you make a conscious decision to demand more from yourself.
Mark W. Boyer
#39. Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.
John C. Maxwell
#40. Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.
Winston Churchill
#41. I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.
Bronwyn Bishop
#43. Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.
David J. Greer
#44. You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.
Andy Stanley
#45. What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason
Robert Harris
#46. The essence of extended rationality is to know when you are being irrational.
Paul Gibbons
#47. Great mentors don't solve your problems, they guide you to make your best decision and encourage you to take personal ownership of the next steps for success.
Steve Knox
#48. True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.
Dave Ramsey
#49. The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader to do that. The definition of strong leadership is to make decisions that are unpopular, but are nevertheless sound.
Henry Blodget
#50. The writers in the newspapers could sounds smart because they did not have the responsibilities of decision, and they could sound bold by enunciating positions which they were not required to implement.
Elton Trueblood
#51. Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.
Ehud Olmert
#52. There are no perfect decisions, only excellent applications.
Todd Stocker
#53. In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases.
David Pietrusza
#54. Don't let your emotions get in the way of rational decision making.
Roy Bennett
#55. All progress begins with a decision. Effective leadership requires decisive action. Embrace the process of deciding, yet recognize when you have reached a choice point.
Angie Morgan
#56. I don't think leadership demands 'yes' or 'no' answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which doesn't demand unanimity.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
#57. Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.
Martin O'Malley
#58. Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership development needs to swing back toward the rational: strategy, creativity, foresight, decision-making, and analytics.
Paul Gibbons
#59. Money follows mission, not the reverse. This is a shorthand way of saying that the stronger the congregation's relational characteristics, the easier it is to raise money. The stronger the congregation's mission, visitation, groupings, leadership, and decision making, the stronger the giving.
Kennon Callahan
#60. The major factor that makes a great leader to fail emerge from the decision of people who surround him/her.
Israelmore Ayivor
#61. Yesterday's decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.
Paul Gibbons
#62. Secretary of the treasury Albert Gallatin is accused of treason by war enthusiasts merely for suggesting budget adjustments to pay for war measures.
Donald R. Hickey
#63. Leadership is making the wise decision even when it's hard.
Todd Stocker
#64. Leadership isn't making all the decisions. It is making sure the right decisions are made.
Andy Stanley
#65. Instead of looking at leadership as decision making - as a rational process of sifting through data, analyzing trends, and making decisions based on predicting futures - a design framework emphasizes pragmatic experimentation.
Frank J. Barrett
#66. Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.
Richie Norton
#67. Those who depend fully on another person's knowledge to decide what is possible are easily manipulated. The most effective leaders utilize experts from all fields , but rely on none when it comes to making a decision.
Joelle Charbonneau Independent Study
#68. I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.
Tony Blair
#69. Have you ever made a decision that sounded good at the time but then led to unanticipated results?
Holly Elissa Bruno
#70. Framing the right problem is equally or even more important than solving it.
Pearl Zhu
#71. When you don't see nothing wrong in anything you do, then you are doing everything wrong.
Richmond Akhigbe
