Top 100 Leadership Is About Quotes
#1. We 'can't' always 'cushion' our views..
'Soften' the stance..
'Straight Talk' involves least effort..
No 'beating about the bush'..
Say it as it is..
Ofcourse, stay ready to be unpopular!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#2. The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.
Molly Ivins
#3. I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.
Jeb Bush
#4. Leadership is about three-fourths show-the-way and about one-fourth follow-up.
James E. Faust
#5. So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.
David Cottrell
#6. While you're worrying about becoming famous, there is someone out there putting in work and not wasting a second of their time. Which person will you be?
Torron-Lee Dewar
#7. And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#8. One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
Tim Pawlenty
#10. The lift is about SPEED and COMFORT, but the stairs are about CERTAINTY! The lift may go wrong but stairs seldom do, you can always take the stairs. They are BOUND to take you UP and to the END as long as you continue to climb!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#11. While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#12. Leadership is more about purpose than it is about position.
Michele Jennae
#14. Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#15. Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#16. Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to speak about a withdrawal.
Yitzhak Rabin
#17. Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.
Simon Sinek
#18. 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
#19. Leadership is not about me, it's about our country.
Chris Christie
#20. The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
Tony Dungy
#21. Leadership is about taking charge and influencing others to follow your vision. It's about going against the odds and accepting responsibility for the outcomes along the way
Robin Crow
#22. Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
Mitt Romney
#23. At the end of the day, man-management is all about managing people's sense and sensitivity...
Sandhya Jane
#24. Leadership is about change ... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.
Noel Tichy
#25. What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.
Vicente Fox
#26. Leadership is about falling in love with the people you serve and the people falling in love with you.
Joyce Banda
#27. When we 'know' what is totally unacceptable..we learn to say 'No'..
Knowing the 'No' gives clarity about what to say 'Yes' to..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#28. If you do not have the courage & conviction to talk about yourself..
Who on Earth will ever listen to you or ever talk about you..NO ONE! Confidence has nothing to do with HUMILITY,it is pure CONVICTION!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#29. There is no mystery about successful business ... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.
Charles William Eliot
#30. 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
#31. Leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. it is not just about you. It's all about them ... everyone deserves a chance ... you can never let yourself be a victim.
Jack Welch
#32. Leveraging your personal strengths means you will also need to become clearer about those strengths. It is easier to build on what you are already good at than start from your weaker areas. Take time to list down your strengths and reflect on them.
Archibald Marwizi
#33. The family of God is about enjoying the bounty of God's table and fellowship with one another and with the Holy Spirit.
Ross Parsley
#34. Leadership is all about people ... and getting the most out of people.
Colin Powell
#35. One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.
John P. Kotter
#36. Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others.
John M. Perkins
#37. Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers.
A.J. Darkholme
#38. Leadership is not about sitting and presiding, it's about a going somewhere. To be buoyant, you must not only ignite passion around a common quest, you must also mobilize your team to take a journey with you toward a common destination, or what I call a "real ambition."
Kevin Allen
#39. The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.
Ken Mehlman
#40. Leadership is not about popularity, it is about doing what is right.
Laura Bush
#41. I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.
Barack Obama
#42. Leading an organization is as much about soul as it is about systems. Effective leadership finds its source in understanding
Herb Kelleher
#43. Most employees are never made or allowed to understand the real meaning behind the work that they are doing. So, for how long can someone remain motivated about chasing something without knowing what he is chasing and why?
Abhishek Ratna
#44. Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!
Israelmore Ayivor
#45. Unlearn your knowledge about what WAS working to understand what is working NOW
Roger James Hamilton
#46. Fundamentally leadership is about change and influencing people to change.
Pearl Zhu
#48. Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered.
Colin Powell
#49. Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.
Sebastian Coe
#50. Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
Douglas Brinkley
#51. Mistakes are not be apologized for each time..
That is a matter of choice in conscience or principles..
Instead mistakes need to be corrected each time..
There is no choice when it is about correction..treat it as an absolute!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#52. People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
Gary Ackerman
#53. Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
Zainab Salbi
#54. If there were only success in your life, you would not learn anything. Leadership is experience and you are still young. You still have much to learn about our people and war; it should not come easy to you. If it did, you would be robbed of life's most valuable teacher.
Rachel Higginson
#55. Leadership is all about raising the aspirations of people.
Narayan
#56. 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
#57. A president must know what it is he does not know, and he should remain calm in pursuit of it, but there is no obligation to be honest about it.
George Friedman
#58. Knowing your value, speaking up, and not flying under the radar - this is what fearless leadership is about.
Carey Lohrenz
#59. Stop helping everyone else make their films, and enlist them to help you make yours. This is an exaggeration, but the point is - you are the one person who cares the most about your project, so you have to take the leadership in driving it forward.
Jenni Olson
#60. Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don't know where you are going, your leadership doesn't matter.
Ken Blanchard
#61. One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.
Margaret Heffernan
#62. Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma
Alan Sugar
#63. Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#64. Entrepreneurship is about freedom, financial freedom but it also about what you leave behind.
Guibert Englebienne, Co-founder of Globant
Kevin Kelly
#65. What I know about my country is that when America is challenged, we rise to the occasion. When we're fearful, we become divided. When we're courageous and have good leadership, we unite.
Keith Ellison
#66. Ultimately, leadership is more about 'being' than 'doing.'
Henry Blackaby
#67. From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.
Althea Gibson
#68. If you care about real change, deep structural change, that involves politics, and all politics is friction. It takes leadership, and the willingness to create that friction, that leads to social change.
Nick Hanauer
#69. Truly remarkable leadership is not just about motivating others to follow, it's about inspiring them to become leaders themselves and setting the stage for even greater opportunities for future generations.
Condoleezza Rice
#71. It's not about WHO is right, it's about WHAT is right.
Tara Dupuis
#72. Every year is different and every team is different. Your talent is different, how it gets is different, your leadership is different. That's one of the things that I really enjoy about it [coaching] - trying to maximize the potential of your team relative to how it changes every year.
Pete Lembo
#73. Real leadership is about building people up and empowering them. Many leaders feel that empowering someone else will reduce their own authority. I ask you: When Rasulallah salAllahu alayhi wa sallam empowered the sahaba, did that take away from his authority or did it empower him?
Nouman Ali Khan
#74. Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
Warren Bennis
#75. I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
Gautam Gambhir
#76. Very often, we think of leadership being at the very top of an organisation. I think what's unique about ABG is that we have a very strong cadre of leaders across the organisation who are highly empowered and therefore play a very major role in the growth and evolution of the organization.
Kumar Mangalam Birla
#77. Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.
George F. Will
#78. Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately leadership is about creating new realities.
Joseph Jaworski
#79. Our climate leadership team has recommended it go up and I would say there's always going to be upward pressure to raise the carbon tax. Remember, we're already double what the only other province who has a carbon tax is at right now, Quebec - they peg it at about $15 a tonne.
Christy Clark
#80. The 'crazy' thing about life is...
People keep 'imprisoning' themselves in the name of 'freedom'..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#81. The secret to success is doing the best that you can do. Forget about whether you might win or lose. By working hard and practicing the skills that you need to perform, the results will take care of themselves. Being successful is about doing your best.
Barbara Cochran
#82. Leadership is about making decisions with the information you have, not the information people will have 12 years later, i kind of feel sorry for my friend Jeb Bush.
Mike Huckabee
#83. That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#84. The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.
Hugh Mackay
#85. Digitas is a company that's very rapidly changing - the digital world changes every day. It's important we hire people who are curious about what's going on and who are willing to learn and want to learn. I look for core leadership traits.
Laura Lang
#86. Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.
Simon Sinek
#87. We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.
Simon Sinek
#88. 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
#89. The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Of course it helps to be right as well, the Abbot conceeded.
Terry Pratchett
#90. Leadership is about taking people from a good place to a better place where they would not regret to be.
Israelmore Ayivor
#91. I had written hundreds of memos during my 26 years at the company, and all had shared a common thread. They were about self-examination in the pursuit of excellence, and a willingness not to embrace the status quo. This is a cornerstone of my leadership philosophy.
Howard Schultz
#93. Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.
David Gergen
#94. What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.
June Jordan
#95. Leadership is about relationships - whether it's a business deal with a client or a conversation with a family member - our ability to understand and appreciate individual uniqueness and perspective is paramount to living a fulfilled life.
Steve Knox
#96. Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate and to connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.
Daniel H. Pink
#97. One of the reasons you can't learn everything you need to know about leadership from a seminar or a book is that leadership is, ultimately, an art.
Mark Rutland
#98. When it is all about winning, once you've done it, you lose interest; stay focus on helping/developing young people as your long-term goal.
Bradford Winters
#99. The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.
Greg Carlson
#100. If cynicism and criticism is the way to worry about the country..
The country better start worrying about itself & it's social police...
Change is about Vision & Mission and not about social NEGATIVITY..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
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