Top 100 Quotes About About Leadership
#1. Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
Young Jeezy
#2. 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
#3. The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them.
John F. Kerry
#4. I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.
Penny Pritzker
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. I've learned about leadership is that leaders are those individuals who do the things that failures aren't willing to do - even though they might not like doing them either. They have the discipline to do what they know to be important - and right - versus what's easy and fun.
Robin S. Sharma
#8. An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
H. Rap Brown
#9. In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.
David Whyte
#10. I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.
Raymond Kelly
#11. We need to change the leadership model in the world. That's my passion in life: changing hearts and minds about leadership.
Bob Vanourek
#12. In a world that is changing as rapidly as this one, we need to think differently about leadership. Leading is not done by those few in high places, but by parents and teachers and managers and those governing
all working together to create the world that we want.
Susan Collins
#13. I can understand backward patriarchal reasoning coming from a male, but from a woman - and of all people, a leader of women? It says something profound about leadership - and, if anything - what it says about followers is not very flattering at all.
Christina Engela
#14. I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.
Asif Ali Zardari
#15. Washington had learned the secrets of inducing others to follow his lead. Washington probably knew more about leadership before he celebrated his twenty-fifth birthday than John Adams discovered in his lifetime.
John Ferling
#16. The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
Dallas Willard
#17. Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.
Mariah Burton Nelson
#18. You can't talk about leadership without talking about responsibility and accountability ... you can't separate the two. A leader must delegate responsibility and provide the freedom to make decisions, and then be held accountable for the results.
Buck Rodgers
#19. One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.
Margaret Heffernan
#20. You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.
Grace Hopper
#21. I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.
Mo Rocca
#22. 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
#23. They're trying to say that greater federal authority would have made a difference, ... The reality is that the feds are the ones that screwed up in the first place. It's not about authority. It's about leadership ... They've got all the authority already.
George Haddow
#24. I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee Iacocca
#25. The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.
Brenda Barnes
#26. Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.
John Wooden
#27. 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
#28. And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.
Steve Case
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.
Orrin Woodward
#32. The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.
Ptolemy
#33. 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
#34. I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.
Joyce Banda
#35. If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.
Steve Jobs
#36. 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
#37. Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others
Carly Fiorina
#38. The success of any change depends, in large measure, on your attitude about that change.
David Cottrell
#39. The Internet is disrupting every media industry ... people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.
Jeff Bezos
#41. You can provide the conditions for the motivation of others and the leadership to help them find a way but they must have the intrinsic spark, the desire, to move, to overcome the inertia of the status quo and change things.
Graham Speechley
#42. If you want to know the real character of man, intentionally and timely give him the test of 3d's; delay, denial and disappointment
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#43. If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS ... they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is just not about Syria, this is about our homeland. And if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.
Lindsey Graham
#44. Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.
Cathy Freeman
#46. Leadership is about three-fourths show-the-way and about one-fourth follow-up.
James E. Faust
#47. Leaders are passionate about the Purpose, while Managers need to be passionate about the Results!
Amit Chatterjee
#48. One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity.
Satya Nadella
#49. You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.
Justin Trudeau
#50. In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.
Bill Dedman
#51. The difference between an "Atypical CIO" and a "Stereotypical CIO" is not about the physical identity but at the mindset level.
Pearl Zhu
#52. Leadership is about being a servant first.
Allen West
#53. 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
#54. Being a leader is not about forever, it is about moments ... it is about THIS moment and what you do with it!
Scott Neilson
#55. That's what leadership is all about: getting somebody to see your vision and believe it's possible.
Kip Tindell
#56. 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
#57. I think it was seen as a symptom that the Chinese leadership may be really scared about their economy.Why would you want to depend more on exports if you're a country that has a stated policy of relying less on exports and more on consumer spending, domestic spending?
David Wessel
#58. Before the 1975 fight in Manila, Ali bragged about attending a Ku Klux Klan meeting; he met with the KKK's leadership because they agreed on the issue of interracial marriage (both sides saw it as an atrocity). The
Chuck Klosterman
#59. I kind of know what my job is, it's to develop a message that's hopeful and optimistic about the future of the country, to develop ideas that will give people a sense that they can lift up, and to tell them about my leadership skills to make it so.
Jeb Bush
#60. If you are a senior executive, you need to embrace each individual's right to choose his or her own hardships - and you must talk about that openly, candidly.
Bill Jensen
#61. We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets.
Conn Smythe
#62. It works...conditioning your mind to see something positive in anything! Anything that happens to you, anything said to you, anything said about you.I have the choice to INTERPRET it in a way that is positive.Surefire way to imbibe Pollyana attitude !
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#63. 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
#64. There are times when we RISE up to situations and recognise our INNER POWER,STRENTHS and CAPABILITY by the way we handled a siutation ! How about recognising ourselves,our POWER. our TALENT, our CAPABILITIES and then handle each situation from our BEST levels. The RESULTS are bound to be UP'd!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#65. the new form of marketing is leadership, and leadership is about building and connecting tribes of like-minded people.
Seth Godin
#66. The art of effective leadership is about navigating the dynamics of growth and success ... holding a vision and leading a team, but arriving at the same time.
Steve Maraboli
#67. True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.
Sheri Dew
#68. In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
Adam Schiff
#69. I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.
John Ortberg
#70. Success is less about what you get at the end but more about who you become in the journey.
Deepak Burfiwala
#71. Of all the questions about the future of leadership that we can raise for ourselves, we can be certain in our answer to only one: 'Who will lead us?' The answer, of course, is that we will be lead by those we have taught, and they will lead us as we have shown them they should.
William C. Richardson
#73. I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.
John P. Kotter
#74. Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.
Andy Hargreaves
#75. Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.
Andy Hargreaves
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. None of them had it. They had no qualms about stealing, but they needed to be told. They liked to be told, and Viktor Chemmel liked to be the teller. It was a nice microcosm.
Markus Zusak
#79. Motivating people is more than having the right incentives, the right programs and the right benefit packages. It's about tapping into the unique passions, personalities and strengths of those entrusted to our care.
Steve Knox
#80. 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
#81. The first step in turning around your organization's performance? Think positively about the people you lead.
Cheryl A. Bachelder
#82. Leadership's a lot more about how brilliantly you work and how masterfully you behave.
Robin S. Sharma
#83. True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.
Myles Munroe
#84. Leadership is more about purpose than it is about position.
Michele Jennae
#86. I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
Queen Elizabeth II
#87. Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.
Scott Hammerle
#88. Emotions or feelings stem from your attitude and they become the basis on which you decide or act. All decisions, choices and actions have some kind of underlying emotional influence. To change the way you feel about someone or something you must first change the way you think about them.
Archibald Marwizi
#89. One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
Kate Klise
#90. Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#91. In the world of oratory, the cunning atheist declares himself a believer so as to preserve access to the rich fund of tales from religious texts and to powerful concepts like God, fate, angels, the soul, & the afterlife.
Agona Apell
#93. Leadership is no longer about your position.
It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference
You can lead without a title
Robin Sharma
#94. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.
Lance Secretan
#95. Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows,
James McNerney
#96. Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
John C. Maxwell
#97. At its core, I believe leadership is about instilling confidence in others
Howard Schultz
#98. 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
#99. 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
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