Top 100 Quotes About Leadership In Business
#1. You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
An Wang
#2. In the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#3. Its easier to start a global business than a local one, make your business one where you can work from anywhere in the world
Roger James Hamilton
#4. There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.
Rick Santorum
#5. A shoulder clap is more appropriate in a business setting. But the underlying principle holds: touch more than the majority of people would in the same context. It demonstrates comfort, leadership, and conviction in your communication skills.
Charlie Houpert
#6. Voters - here's the real challenge: we don't need empty promises made by politicians whose only goal in life is to get elected or re-elected. We need leaders with attributes that qualify them to lead us through the difficult challenges we're facing.
Lee Ellis
#7. Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.
Ian Hutchinson
#8. He was the first prime minister in a long time who did not have a son or a son-in-law in business or real estate
Sanjaya Baru
#9. The system you work in does not tell you who you get to be; you decide who you get to be.
Mindy Hall
#10. I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.
John Wooden
#11. Over-communicating is the glue that holds a high-performing team together and keeps them focused in the same direction. And, it circles back to clarity. Without good, consistent communication, you don't have clarity.
Lee Ellis
#12. If all the businesses in town are run like country businesses, You are going to have a country town
William Faulkner
#13. Practice holding labels lightly as leaders so you have greater range in your behaviors and are more adaptable and effective in a greater range of situations.
Henna Inam
#14. We all know business financial performance improves when more women are in senior levels of management and leadership.
Beth Brooke
#15. When a family is unified, it doesn't matter what business they're in. They can successfully transition from one generation to the next.
Andrew Keyt
#16. It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.
Michael Eisner
#17. In the professional world of leadership ambition and potential are the most excessive commodities.
Noel DeJesus
#18. Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.
Stephen Covey
#19. good leadership can help creative people stay on the path to excellence no matter what business they're in.
Ed Catmull
#20. What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths - and can call on the right strength at the right time.
Tom Rath
#21. No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why
Frances Hesselbein
#22. Inspiring leadership communication is not about great oratory or great charisma; rather it is about getting others to believe in themselves and believe in your cause, and then achieve more than they thought was possible.
Kevin Murray
#23. I didn't follow the policies of those already in the business. If I had, I would never have made a go of it. Instead, I started out with the determination to make a better nickel chocolate bar than any of my competitors made, and I did so.
Milton S. Hershey
#24. Followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope
Tom Rath
#25. To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
Aristotle Onassis
#26. Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'
Catherine DeVrye
#27. What you hold in your consciousness tends to manifest - the inner game runs the outer game.
William A. Adams
#28. We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
Yahoo Serious
#29. Anyone who is in Christ is strategically positioned to win the most coveted award in this business called life. He doesn't want you playing itty-bitty roles. He wants bright lights in your dressing room, and the spotlight trained on you as you take the center stage.
Yay Padua-Olmedo
#30. Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.
Dustin Diamond
#31. Wrong location? Move it. Wrong people? Replace 'em. Wrong industry? I don't believe it. I've got a company in the machine tools industry, and we're doing great. I'd happily go into the coal business. It's how you look at something and how it's managed that make the difference.
Ken Hendricks
#32. The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.
Jack Ma
#33. When you see recurring problems, the methods you've used successfully in the past have to be reevaluated.
Mark Miller
#34. It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.
Fred Wilson
#35. The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work ot make it better.
Barbra Pletcher
#36. Great leaders inspire greatness in others.
Lolly Daskal
#37. My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves.
James McNerney
#38. Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
Sheryl Sandberg
#39. We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
Tom Peters
#40. A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.
Mary Kay Ash
#42. Partner struck me as an ugly euphemism. Euphemism in the sense that people don't like to talk about sex, so they displace it on to some kind of business model. Since I have a distaste for business, I see no appeal to something that sounds like a financial leadership team.
Barbara Browning
#43. In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.
Brad Wenstrup
#44. It doesn't matter to me that my leaving will cost you money. It doesn't matter that my space will take time to fill. What matters is that I'm happy and if you're not willing to invest in me, then I'm willing to cost you money.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#45. At HBO, my leadership had to inspire and gain the respect of employees in a large company with over 100 external business relationships in dozens of countries.
James Costos
#46. The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.
Richard Grimes
#47. Many in business feel they have to live up to a machismo archetype of the big-swinging-dick business leader
Jon Miller
#48. Everyone is a business person. You must be in the business of managing your time. Managing your time means managing your life. Good time managers are good life managers, and vice versa.
Archibald Marwizi
#49. Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.
Paul Orfalea
#50. In fact, for all the secrets and formulas, for all the self-proclaimed thought leadership, success in business is as elusive as ever.
Philip M. Rosenzweig
#51. A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
Harry S. Truman
#52. Where do business leaders turn for advice to improve their leadership skills? Many successful leaders like Dan Cathy, President and COO of Chick-fil-A turn to the Bible. Speaking at Trinity College in Illinois, "Cathy discussed how scripture dictates Chick-fil-A's business plan.
R.J. Stepansky
#53. Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.
Lee Ellis
#54. But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict
Ronald A. Heifetz
#55. In order to sustain the integrity of the organization, a business must dedicate time and resources to education, leadership development, and personnel development. Don't focus on the product. Focus on the team.
Robert Kiyosaki
#56. As is often the case with children, the rule of 'monkey see, monkey do' plays out in the workplace. It's hard to be good role model, and it's one of the greatest challenges of leadership.
Lee Ellis
#58. As president, I will stand up to the great human rights tests of our time - in China, Russia, and the Middle East. We must send a signal to our allies and adversaries that America is back in the leadership business.
Carly Fiorina
#59. Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.
Brandi L. Bates
#60. Disengaged employees are an unfortunate reality in the workplace, and poor leadership is often to blame.
W.Chan Kim
#61. My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq
Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution
#62. In the world of business, being slow is a losing move.
Shawn Casemore
#63. It is the leader's job to lead by example and enforce the values and the behaviors to set the culture for any company or work group. Show me a company in rapid decline, and I will show you someone in charge who doesn't give a _.
Beth Ramsay
#64. If you can 'hire tough,' you can 'manage easy.
Sue Tetzlaff
#65. Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool.
Arianna Huffington
#66. Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.
Steve Daines
#67. 21st Century Managers must change their thinking because they are now in the business of managing Mindsets & thinking, which impacts actions and behaviors.
Tony Dovale
#68. It takes healthy, resilient leaders and employees to achieve great results.
Sue Tetzlaff
#69. Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone
Tom Rath
#70. Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.
Epictetus
#71. The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.
Chris Matthews
#72. Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.
David Rockefeller
#73. Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.
Crystal Woods
#74. If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of at
least a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies follow
your business approach, you are certainly an important manager with
leader characteristics.
Eraldo Banovac
#75. Give us a world where half our homes are run by men, and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world.
Sheryl Sandberg
#76. Succeeding in life and business is like falling in love with your wife (for those of you that are married). You can't leave your wife at the mercy of another man and feel safe.
Nkem Paul
#77. Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results
Nigel Crouch
#78. In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.
Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution
#79. I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.
Nancy Lublin
#80. God desires your increase in your leadership, stewardship, relationship, and business
Sunday Adelaja
#81. I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing. But I can't prove that. And there are no models.
Marvin Bower
#82. Never put your business in the hands of one person or a select few. People leave. People die. People forget.
Liz Weber
#83. There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.
Marcus Buckingham
#84. A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. In places where people see a lot of obstacles, I see a lot of opportunities. A good businessman sees where others don't see.
Orji Uzor Kalu
#85. Move away from the mid-set that the fulfillment of the organization's mission, vision, and strategic plan is only the work of leaders.
Sue Tetzlaff
#86. If the people in an organization think the company is small, they will act that way. If they think the company is big, they will act that way.
David J. Greer
#87. There is no blueprint to leadership, quite the conundrum in a business world where standardization is celebrated.
Noel DeJesus
#88. One of the greatest skills - and gifts - is to focus on a person. Make them feel as though they're the only person in the world.
Rhonda Rhyne
#89. To the degree that one relates sensitively, appropriately, and even charmingly, to the people and events faced in business and personal life, success will follow.
Herman L Glaess
#90. You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you've closed for the day and flips the board.
Mark Miller
#91. There is an interplay between great leadership, events, trends, the organization, the people in it, the market 'out there' that goes far beyond one person exercising their will over others.
That's not what leadership is any more.
Phil Dourado
#92. Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure.
Bernard L. Schwartz
#93. Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn't regard yourself as a weakling.
Jack Ma
#94. Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.
Paul Gibbons
#95. Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long.
Lolly Daskal
#96. 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
#97. If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.
Sheryl Sandberg
#98. Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the moment. (Moments: Making Your Life Count For What Matters Most, Mike Van Hoozer)
Mike Van Hoozer
#99. In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.
Mary Cunningham Agee
#100. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
Sheryl Sandberg
