Top 100 Quotes About The Leadership
#1. 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
#2. Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.
Veronica Roth
#3. Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity
Reed Markham
#4. Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#5. The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.
Ptolemy
#6. We shall all respect the principle of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act oppression to any portion of the people
Alexander Mackenzie
#7. Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
Elliott Jaques
#8. The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.
James Fisher
#9. Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.
Bonnie Marcus
#11. 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
#12. You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking.
Carla Harris
#13. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
Mark W. Boyer
#14. At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
Gerry Adams
#15. Influence requires humility. The essence of influence is others. The key word is relationships.
Johnny Hunt
#16. Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people...
Assegid Habtewold
#17. You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.
Peter Thiel
#18. Time, energy, and focus; these are the resources at your disposal each and every day.
Noel DeJesus
#19. Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#20. The lack of women among the twelve disciples isn't prescriptive or a precedent for exclusion of women any more than the choice of twelve Jewish men excludes Gentile men from leadership.
Sarah Bessey
#21. What are the beliefs that give life, spirit and passion to your dream and which values will guide your decisions and actions for you to be fulfilled by your own success?
Archibald Marwizi
#22. True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.
James C. Collins
#23. The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith.
John Haggai
#24. Digital synchronization occurs when all parts of the choir sing their respective parts in harmony.
Pearl Zhu
#25. Teachers create and transform energy. They are the dynamos of educational change.
Andy Hargreaves
#26. Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.
Wendy Kopp
#28. Preseason football is hard to evaluate. It's never going to be clean for the quarterbacks. You have to overcome the ugly plays and be productive. It's a component of leadership that is necessary. The guys that make it in the league survive that.
Mike McCarthy
#29. Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.
Ayn Rand
#30. 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
#31. The knowledge of the Spirit is the true secret of creativity, leadership and happiness. It is spiritual intelligence that makes an ordinary person a genius. When a genius loses his spiritual intelligence, he becomes quite ordinary.
Awdhesh Singh
#32. I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.
Ogwo David Emenike
#33. Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress.
Abhijit Naskar
#34. A President must call on many persons
some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#35. Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.
Aubrey Malphurs
#36. The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.
Jean Edward Smith
#37. We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
George Soros
#38. Events and developments that we have observed in 2014, prove that this year will be very difficult for the world economy, but thoughtful economic policy, diversification and unity between the country's leadership and people guarantee that this year will be successful for us.
Ilham Aliyev
#39. You're born with some things inside you that will allow you to lead, but I think you have to take the bull by the horns. You have to want that leadership position, and then there are things you can do to develop that.
Tony Dungy
#40. 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
#41. The person who will end up enjoying success, is the one who planned for it and who knew why they are seeking to succeed.
Archibald Marwizi
#42. Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.
Grace Lee Boggs
#43. The truth to succeeding at leadership is recognizing that it's a never-ending journey of discovery and learning.
Tanveer Naseer
#44. The future does not wait for hesitant people. The more we achieve, the more we realise how much more we can achieve.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#46. I am my own woman ... and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family's needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person's particular need is met, it's the best leadership training you can have.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
#47. Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.
Robin S. Sharma
#48. Discipline is "the systematic management of your life to prepare and position you for your divine design." Discipline and stewardship are one and the same. Discipline brings order to life and is absolutely required if we're going to be good stewards of the call to leadership.
Kent Ingle
#49. Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves.
A.J. Darkholme
#50. I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.
Mary Kay Ash
#51. All the good you've ever done does not make it permissible to sin now.
Johnny Hunt
#52. One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
Edward Burgess Butler
#53. Leading fools is like leading no one.
Following a fool is like following no one.
The wise make the best leaders and followers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#54. 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
#55. Effective leaders allow God to shape them into the kind of people they need to be for each situation they encounter.
Jim George
#56. Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.
George R R Martin
#57. Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.
Mahatma Gandhi
#58. 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
#59. Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#60. 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
#61. That's the burden of leadership, Logan: making the choice when none of the choices are good.
Brent Weeks
#62. We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets.
Tzachi Hanegbi
#63. Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.
John P. Kotter
#64. What is the cost of replacing and bringing up to speed one of your managers, supervisors, or front-line employees who left because they were frustrated with your organization's leadership?
Liz Weber
#65. We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals.
Ronald Reagan
#66. Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.
Condoleezza Rice
#67. I think Eleanor Roosevelt's so popular at Allenswood because it's the first time she is, number one, free. But it's the first time somebody really recognizes her own leadership abilities and her own scholarly abilities.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
#68. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
Harvey S. Firestone
#69. There is the authority of position and the authority of knowledge - 'Authority flows from the one who knows.' But sharing in hardship confers upon a leader something quite rare - moral authority.
John Adair
#70. As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
#71. Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others
Carly Fiorina
#72. Walking the walk is one thing, but it is so much more powerful if you can talk it as well.
Robin Hoyle
#73. The success of any change depends, in large measure, on your attitude about that change.
David Cottrell
#74. With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.
Sultan Bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
#75. 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
#76. Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
Robert Half
#77. Instead of getting the leaders we deserve, we can an abundance of ShitRollsDownhill Shovelers, ShitCatchers, and NewShitCreators.
Bill Jensen
#78. Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.
Jimmy Carter
#79. Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader's life.
Gary Rohrmayer
#80. Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.
Andy Stanley
#81. He's very competitive and knows what he wants. He has developed toughness in character and that is what is needed for Indian cricket. Ganguly has proved to be one of the best captains. He has now acquired great leadership qualities.
Steve Waugh
#82. The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.
Guy Kawasaki
#83. We've lost the wow of God because we've lost the woe of God. His perfect holiness helps us truly appreciate His amazing grace.
Mark Batterson
#84. My current fear is that the message being sent by the level of vitriol surrounding Gillard's flawed leadership (but tell me whose wasn't flawed) is being heard by Australian women and girls loud and clear. And the message is: 'Don't aspire to high office,sweetheart, because we'll flay you alive.'
Jane Caro
#85. Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.
Brene Brown
#86. Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership.
Mark Zuckerberg
#87. Big-picture, hands-off leadership isn't likely to work in a change situation, because the hardest part of change - the paralyzing part - is precisely in the details.
Chip Heath
#88. Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.
Pope Francis
#89. The mind is a storehouse with great capacity, but is often filled with dubious knowledge and meaningless trivialities. In truth, much of this - though at times interesting and entertaining - is of insignificant value.
Stevenson Willis
#90. It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
Kamisese Mara
#91. 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
#92. Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.
Steve Ballmer
#93. Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness.
John F. Kennedy
#94. 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
#95. The question is, do you have deliberate plans for your life? Do you have intentions with you time? God planned that there should be a time for everything and for every season, meaning you can plan for everything and every season in your life! You may ask, 'Is that possible?" I say, "It's up to you!
Archibald Marwizi
#96. 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
#97. Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
Ibrahim Babangida
#98. They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.
Laurence J. Peter
#99. The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.
Condoleezza Rice
#100. Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.
Michael Oxley
