Quotes About Leadership

#1. Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

Cory Booker

#2. Even experienced men were apt to flounder badly in crises if they lacked leadership.

Larry McMurtry

#3. Making heroes out of celebrity CEOs is at the heart of the crisis in corporate leadership.

Bill George

#4. While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.

Mary Parker Follett

#5. Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.

John C. Maxwell

#6. German Nazism could not have succeeded in establishing itself except as a result of the theoretical contributions of Fichte, Goethe and Nietzsche, coupled with the ingenious and mighty leadership of Hitler and his comrades.

Abul A'la Maududi

#7. The purpose of leadership is to take others to the top. And when you take others who might not make it to the top otherwise, there's no other feeling like it in the world. To those who have never had the experience, you can't explain it. To those who have, you don't need to.

John C. Maxwell

#8. Leadership potential exists in everybody. What I think we have missed is that we have somehow relegated leadership only to a special, talented few people.

Myles Munroe

#9. I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.

Joe Shuster

#10. A good organization can be destroyed by poor leadership".

Peter Smith

#11. Leadership is the day to day communications about the real issues.

Chris Argyris

#12. Leadership is having a point of view.

Roger Enrico

#13. Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

Michael Bergdahl

#14. Having served in the Nixon Administration, I am well aware of how the political leadership of an administration can try to politicize the civil service, including law enforcement.

Frank Wolf

#15. The leadership spirit comes with a spirit of leadership.

Myles Munroe

#16. I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

E.P. Thompson

#17. Leadership must evolve into a "science-based craft", like surgery.

Paul Gibbons

#18. 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

#19. Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.

Neal Shusterman

#20. Leadership needs continuous learning from experience. Every time you learn something new, you re-wire your brain.

Amit Ray

#21. The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest.

Simon Sinek

#22. I am most proud about the science I've done with my own two hands because I have always thought that even if your life path takes you into a leadership position outside the area you were known for, your legitimacy remains in that first field.

Gustav Nossal

#23. I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.

Chris Hadfield

#24. If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.

Tony Dungy

#25. The difference between a leadership and a command company can be very great indeed, because in a hierarchical situation, people who have concerns about reactions against themselves would simply not put forward negative information.

Marvin Bower

#26. Other men look to him as someone to emulate. His church calls on him for strength and leadership. He is a preserver of culture and a champion of society to keep out evil and usher in good.

Tony Evans

#27. Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.

Seth Godin

#28. As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

#29. The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

J. Oswald Sanders

#30. These two principles correspond to the two areas of effectiveness that we've encountered: personal leadership and personal management. "Know what's most important" is the arena of personal leadership; "put it first and actually do it" is the arena of personal management.

Matt Perman

#31. All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits.

Rudy Giuliani

#32. It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

Alan Dershowitz

#33. I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas.

Wendy Davis

#34. Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.

George Washington

#35. I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be a leader. I just try to behave the way I think I should behave. If that results in a leadership role, great.

Matt Holliday

#36. Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

Arleigh Burke

#37. In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)

Joe Manchin

#38. Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

Steve Jobs

#39. It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

Ivanka Trump

#40. Leadership is action, not position

Donald McGannon

#41. Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Russel Honore

#42. Leadership that is not well-grounded in followership - following Jesus - is dangerous to both the church and the world.41

Robert Banks

#43. Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.

Simon Mainwaring

#44. Entrepreneurial Leadership is where your vision, influence and creativity converge; it is where opportunities become limitless and your capabilities boundless.

Farshad Asl

#45. irony is that, while secular leadership has become blatantly spiritual, Christian leadership has become blatantly (and blandly) secular.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#46. The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.

Mikhail Kalinin

#47. Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

Tom Daschle

#48. I feel comfortable in a position of leadership, but that's not to say I feel complacent about it. I take it incredibly seriously.

Nicola Sturgeon

#49. The cost of leadership," explains Lieutenant General George Flynn of the United States Marine Corps, "is self-interest.

Simon Sinek

#50. The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Cyril Falls

#51. If you have a full understanding of what we're up against and the leadership of your country doesn't, well, hello. That's life in America today.

Rush Limbaugh

#52. My assessment is that we have a crisis in national political leadership. When will America recognize the danger we face? When will the corrosive partisanship of American politics end and allow for a bipartisan solution to arguably the most dangerous threat our nation has faced in over 60 years?

Ricardo Sanchez

#53. Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.

John Stott

#54. I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.

Paul Tsongas

#55. The Congress leadership always denied responsibilities to me both within the government and within the party organisation ... They would always tell me my image as a Hindu leader was a constraint on my capacity as a political leader.

Satpal Maharaj

#56. Meaningful acts of leadership usually cause people to accept some short-term pain (extra cost or effort, delayed gratification) in order to increase the long-term benefit. We need leadership for this, because we all tend to be short-term thinkers.

Tom DeMarco

#57. 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

#58. Leadership is the ability to make things happen.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#59. I have the right temperament. I have the right leadership. I've built an incredible company. I went to a great school. I came out - I built an incredible company. I wrote the number one selling business book of all time: 'Trump: The Art of the Deal.'

Donald Trump

#60. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#61. [Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.

Marian Wright Edelman

#62. The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose.

Mary Parker Follett

#63. I love reading - inspirational books, leadership books, biographies. I exercise a lot and put on my audio book. Even If you would offer me a million dollars for my iPod I wouldn't give it to you, because I have some great things on it.

Robin Sharma

#64. Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

John C. Maxwell

#65. The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone.

Leonard Sweet

#66. I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

Barack Obama

#67. America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#68. The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.

Dennis Cardoza

#69. When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#70. Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

Patrick J. Kennedy

#71. Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

Louis Farrakhan

#72. Clearly i Bible times, women were used in ministry leadership roles, and still are today.

Debora Hooper

#73. Leadership is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you're not.

Jim Sullivan

#74. Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.

Abraham Zaleznik

#75. Jesus modeled true leadership as both personal and hospitable.

Adam LiVecchi

#76. We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.

Jerrold Nadler

#77. A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're born here, come to this country, and so the business community is for immigration. Big businesses, small businesses, high-tech, low-tech, the communities of faith, and the Republican leadership.

Grover Norquist

#78. The "artificial gap" between business and IT can be bridged via effective leadership, profound understanding, continuous learning, and improvement.

Pearl Zhu

#79. The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement ... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

Andrew Greeley

#80. Times of upheaval require not just more leadership but more leaders. People at all organizational levels, whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered to share leadership responsibilities.

Rosalynn Carter

#81. Leadership is more doing than dash.

Peter Drucker

#82. Leaders don't assume. Assumptions are the termites of leadership. Communicate, communicate, and communicate, until you connect.

Farshad Asl

#83. The one thing that's missing to create a fundamental shift in work capacity: courage. Leadership courage.

Bill Jensen

#84. I definitely wasn't cool in high school. I really wasn't. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things.

Dianna Agron

#85. The charismatic portrait of the modern leadership looks nothing like Fidel Castro. It is a faceless portrait that epitomizes the toughness of Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela's charisma, and the most compassionate heart of Mother Theresa.

Anthony Obi Ogbo

#86. What Michelle didn't yet know was that there is a vast difference between playing and leading. The point guard position in basketball is one of the great tutorials on leadership, and it ought to be taught in classrooms. Anyone can perfect a dribble with muscle memory;

Pat Summitt

#87. I need people to know that there is a group of people who are part of the leadership of the DNC, and I will make damn sure as a vice chair, and so will others, that we do everything humanly possible to have a level playing field.

Hillary Clinton

#88. Leadership is essentially a task of persuasion - of winning people's minds and hearts.

Stephen Denning

#89. One of the first steps toward successful leadership in the human realm is asking ourselves this question, "When people draw near us, do they recognize that we know God?

Teresa Hampton

#90. The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.

Colin Powell

#91. While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

D.H. Lawrence

#92. Creative leadership can be described as "adaptability meets agility," and "innovation meets principles.

Pearl Zhu

#93. Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.

John P. Kotter

#94. A third path that a business can follow - an offshoot of our two main strategies - is pursuing a highly targeted market and focusing its resources on serving that tight segment, whether through cost leadership or differentiation. This is the focus strategy.

Anonymous

#95. People want to see other people who have 'non-negotiables,' things for which they're willing to say, 'This is it' we take our stand right here.' That's a leadership quality which people respect.

John Ashcroft

#96. The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

Arthur Scargill

#97. Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

Peter Drucker

#98. Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential.

Warren G. Bennis

#99. Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

Claude Taylor

#100. Lewis Booth and Derrick Kuzak represent the very best of Ford and our culture and built a legacy of leadership, integrity and commitment to excellence that will benefit us for years to come.

William Clay Ford Jr.