Leadership Positions Quotes

#1. I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to seek leadership positions.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#2. Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!

Israelmore Ayivor

#3. 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

#4. women are obtaining undergraduate degrees at a far higher rate than men, and women are earning professional and doctorate degrees at a rate greater or nearly equal to that of men, but they are still vastly underrepresented in top leadership positions.

Peter G. Northouse

#5. I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.

Diablo Cody

#6. For a lot of women, one of the hardest things about leadership is the desire to be liked by everyone. That's often inconsistent with leadership. It's certainly inconsistent with taking positions on very controversial issues.

Sarah Weddington

#7. Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

Seth Godin

#8. Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

John C. Maxwell

#9. The intelligence and ability of a colored person are in pretty direct proportion to the amount of white blood he has, and ... most of the positions of leadership, influence, and prominence in the Negro race are held not by real Negroes but by Mulattoes, many of whom have very little Negro blood.

Madison Grant

#10. All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

#11. There are times when people that you put in those positions make mistakes, they disappoint you, you lose their - you lose your confidence in them, or they lie to you. And when you find that out, the test of leadership is what do you do.

Chris Christie

#12. The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

Rosalyn S. Yalow

#13. I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.

John Mackey

#14. Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

Anita Borg

#15. The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.

Elizabeth Lesser

#16. The pipeline that supplies the educated workforce is clock-full of women at the entry level, but by the time that same pipeline is filling leadership positions, it is overwhelmingly stocked with men.

Sheryl Sandberg

#17. Democracy today, especially in the English-speaking world, is a political system that specialises in positioning inadequate, unqualified and dubious types in leadership positions.

Gilad Atzmon

#18. Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.

Jeb Bush

#19. France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.

Francois Hollande

#20. In ten years they would be dead, deported or in leadership positions.

Peter Hoeg

#21. The underlying issue in getting women to top positions is what kind of leadership we value and how we teach, assess, and promote "good" leaders in all organizations.

Maureen Chiquet

#22. Success may be measured by things (prosperity, property, positions, possessions) but GREATNESS (Leadership) can only be measured by PEOPLE.

Fela Durotoye

#23. The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don't expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don't.

Sheryl Sandberg

#24. As the demands of the positions differed, and as I grew in age and experience, I found that I had changed as a leader. I learned to ask myself two questions: First, what must the organization I command do and be? And second, how can I best command to achieve that?

Stanley McChrystal

#25. It's such a rarity to have women in senior powerful positions. We can name them all. Fact is, women can handle power and handle it well. That's something I'd like a lot more women to understand.

Christine Nixon

#26. The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

Linda Vester

#27. In short, women who do not opt out of demanding professional positions are more likely to opt out of demanding family obligations.

Barbara Kellerman

#28. One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.

Robert Shea

#29. I have said it loud and clear: Beware, men, lest women deprive you of all the leadership positions in the country.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

#30. But part of that incipient racism had always led whites to assume the leadership positions and perpetuated the view that whites rather than blacks were the heroes of the movement.

John Howard Griffin

#31. Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?

Janusz Korczak

#32. Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

#33. I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#34. Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

Bo Bennett

#35. Only people of proven character should be placed in positions of spiritual leadership.

Max Anders

#36. Every generation has been given the same blueprint to follow for the good of society. When that blueprint is disregarded by parents and those in leadership positions, the chain is broken and the human race suffers.

Ellen J. Barrier

#37. Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

Ron D. Burton

#38. The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.

Jim Webb

#39. It is unfortunate, that many in positions of leadership, both great and small, have been found guilty of such practices

Anonymous

#40. When we step into positions of leadership, we make a whole set of promises we may not know we are making.

Bob Anderson

#41. It is amazing, the number of business executives and senior leaders who get to be appointed and elevated to positions of authority on the basis of technical competences whilst lacking essential grooming on basic good manners and customs of conduct that must come from the home training process.

Archibald Marwizi

#42. For more than 20 years, Camfed has supported a generation of African girls and women with access to secondary and higher education, employment opportunities, and, ultimately, into positions of leadership.

Ann Cotton

#43. The fastest surging woman leadership position is heading non-profit organizations. Women are not rejecting leadership positions
they're rejecting politics.

Celinda Lake

#44. By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.

Bill Walsh