Quotes About Reading And Leadership

#1. Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

Henry Mintzberg

#2. Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

Whoopi Goldberg

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

Paul Bryant

#6. Ultimately, I'm fine with everything that I've done.

Hunter Parrish

#7. A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. Read to lead in order to succeed.

Habeeb Akande

#9. What's this business about the 'little man in the canoe?' If it's big enough for a canoe, it's too big for me.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#10. Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it.

Oprah Winfrey

#11. We are the children of one creator.
We are different in some ways. Yet, we are equal.

Ellen J. Barrier

#12. The projects I have done on television, they're sitcoms, situational comedies. The problem is, maybe because they go on every day, Monday through Friday, one-hour format, maybe that's why they're labeled as a telenovela. But technically speaking, they're sitcoms because they're situational comedies.

Jaime Camil

#13. Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.

Terry Pratchett

#14. Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.

Wayde Goodall

#15. A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

Richard Brookhiser

#16. He not only had the gift of "reading" men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the gift of putting himself in their place, of not just seeing what they felt but of feeling what they felt, almost as if what had happened to them had happened to him, too.

Robert A. Caro

#17. Ironic, huh? To keep that part of me alive, I have to be close to that which kills it.

Sophie Jordan

#18. You started like a saint and now you've finished like a thief

Stephen Kellogg

#19. Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Harry Truman

#20. Make sure your reading, studying or research are always adding value to the defined vision, mission, beliefs and values that form your unique personal brand.

Archibald Marwizi

#21. I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13, and I watched it, thinking, 'Wow. That is pretty cool. I'd like to do something like that.'

Aneurin Barnard

#22. I feel like in a conversation if things get said and then repeated, it sort of becomes inherently part of the narrative whether you want it to be or not.

Panda Bear

#23. The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman:
the endless sea is Portuguese

Fernando Pessoa

#24. My job was to turn the company around and to give Time Warner a profitable Web business to spin off and a profitable access business that still throws off a tremendous amount of cash. I can check both of those boxes. I am done, and I feel good about what we've accomplished.

Randy Falco

#25. If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.

Andy Hargreaves

#26. When states are absent, rights - by any definition - are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are fruits of long and quiet effort.

Timothy Snyder

#27. If you're a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don't. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.

Bill Hybels