Top 22 Leadership Personality Quotes
#1. Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.
Douglas Brinkley
#2. 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
#3. Disequilibrium is often instigated by the will to power, a sleepless drive in the human personality to control others, to force them to do what one wants, or not to do what one opposes.
Ron Suskind
#4. This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen.
Newt Gingrich
#5. I'm really comfortable in a stressful, leadership position. I need this job. I need to do this. This fits my personality. This is the best thing for me, short of playing.
Avery Johnson
#6. People who are role models for the principles and values of the organization, who buy in and understand the vision of what the organization is trying to accomplish, and have the personality to inspire other people to the vision. You know, that's what team chemistry and leadership is all about.
Nick Saban
#7. He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.
Dan Jones
#8. Leadership is not about personality, possessions, or charisma, but all about who you are as a person. I used to believe that leadership was about style but now I know that leadership is about substance, namely character.
James Hunter
#9. Groves, with his eye for sizing up people who could get things done, saw the deep ambition Oppenheimer covered with his surface charm.
Garry Wills
#10. Leadership is the lifting of a man's vision to higher sights, the raising of a man's performance to a higher standard, the building of a man's personality beyond its limitations. - PETER DRUCKER
Samuel Chand
#12. Leadership can't be forced or contrived. It has to be your personality.
Aaron Rodgers
#13. There are many kinds of leaders. Too often we confuse a forceful personality with leadership. This is a mistake. Those with different talents and styles can reach the same mountaintop; they just take different paths to get there.
Henry H. Neff
#14. Every real human being has to be a 'rebel'...rebel against whom?? Against his own personality...the bits which have kept him from being the REAL him!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#15. Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether spiritual nature, is worldly and has no place in the Christian community; indeed, it poisons the Christianity community.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#16. Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma
Alan Sugar
#18. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter F. Drucker and Joseph A. Maciariello, Management: Revised Edition, 2008, p. 288.
Joseph A. Maciariello
#20. Charisma can be as much a liability as an asset, as the strength of your leadership personality can deter people from bringing you the brutal facts.
James C. Collins
#21. I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.
Andrew Luck
#22. I think in any situation, so much of effective leadership is when it comes from your own personality. And I feel very fortunate to be comfortable in the Colts locker room, where people can be who they are, and they don't have to change it when they show up to work that day.
Andrew Luck
