Top 100 Thought Leader Quotes
#1. To be a thought leader, you have to have a thought.
Eric Schmidt
#2. It's easy for the thought-leader and executive classes to embrace a 'do what you love and love what you do' philosophy when they are wealthy enough to work hard only voluntarily, and when their jobs grant them status.
Alex Pareene
#3. A next-generation innovation writer and thought leader worth watching.
Scott D. Anthony
#4. How do you become a thought leader? It starts with *being* a thought leader and then connecting the dots back to you.
Brian Solis
#5. Never try to be a thought leader. There's no value in that. Instead, try to add value.
Chris Brogan
#6. Part of the role of a thought leader is not to necessarily have all the answers - I certainly don't - but it's to be able to ask the right questions and the privilege of being able to lead the conversation.
Michael Hyatt
#7. To become distinguished in your industry, you have to constantly manage, master and maximise your time.
Onyi Anyado
#8. What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.
Israelmore Ayivor
#9. You can't gather much if you won't go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns; they'll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they'll get.
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#10. Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what's already done well; blames show them what's yet to be done well.
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#11. It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
K'naan
#12. It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who commanded the three paths of religious learning, philosophical thought and poetical and artistic creativity.
Mohammad Khatami
#13. The speed at which progress rolls is not determined by the number of people who started pushing it, but by the number of people who are passionate to hold on doing so.
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#14. The leader's commandment is made up of pledges to solve local and global problems, and not to create more problems to add to the existing ones.
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#15. Your connection to yourself is also your connection to the divine. The more you are connected to yourself, the more you are connected to the divine. They are one and the same.
Renae A. Sauter
#16. Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.
Simon Sinek
#17. One aristocratic leader's club was known for, an atmosphere of solemn tranquility, in which reading, dozing, and meditation took precedence over conversation.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#18. To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.
Rick Welts
#19. As we celebrate the 100th birthday of Margaret Sanger, our outrageous and our courageous leader, we will probably find a number of areas in which we may find more about Margaret Sanger than we thought we wanted to know ...
Faye Wattleton
#20. The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.
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#21. I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps.
Freddie Mercury
#22. I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.
John Hume
#23. I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes.
Julie Bowen
#24. I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.
Patrick DeWitt
#25. MANDELA: a man deemed to be the greatest icon in Africa. his life thought me couple of lessons that always inspires me to strive hard for respect and to make an impact on humanity. may his footsteps continue to live for ever on the sands of time.
Victor Adeagbo
#26. I couldn't wait to get to the most powerful position, because I thought then I would be able to fix problems that only the leader can fix. But when I got there, I realized we needed revolutionary change.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#27. Leaders know where they can function better. They don't cry over what they cannot do.
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#28. I owe my discovery of the Hot Club of Cowtown to Kinky Friedman, leader of the Texas Jewboys. When I saw that Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys were headlining the 2003 Santa Clarita Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, I thought it my duty to check out the band that had inspired the Texas Jewboys.
Clive Sinclair
#29. Leader discover themselves through a continuous fellowship and relationship with their sources of their life and wisdom. Self-discovery is the key to true leadership!
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#30. Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality presented to them.
Adam Johnson
#31. Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.
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#32. A visionary is a leader of excellence who sees what others do not see, who achieves for now and plans for the future, who positively impacts different generations and raises up other visionaries.
Onyi Anyado
#33. I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.
Rivka Galchen
#34. I meet people who use the term 'plant spirit' as a matter of course. Initially I thought they were all rather woo-woo, but as I met more brilliant, accomplished plant spirit thought leaders, my thoughts started to shift to, "What am I missing here?"
Zoe Helene
#35. Your character and attitude is what takes the lead in your leadership role and you follow them as a true leader. Poor character and attitude is eventually poor leadership.
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#36. I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.
Carl Sagan
#37. Leaders don't fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn't their desire to maintain but to improve.
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#38. A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.
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#39. When you focus on how people feel about what they are saying, you increase the level of true concern you have for others. You actually start to become the person you thought you were pretending to be: a true leader!
Garrison Wynn
#40. Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.
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#41. The leader's job is to show the way. The bottom line is that you can't tell anything about the condition of the way if you've not traveled on it yourself!
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#42. Don't believe everything you think. Our minds are thought-creating machines. Most of these thoughts are fear-based. Our authentic self has the power to pick the thoughts that best serve us and those we lead.
Henna Inam
#43. Sometimes it is difficult to different between leaders and misleaders. However, with the measurement of true service to mankind, the evidence is very clear!
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#44. Leaders show examples. They have something to offer and they'll offer it by the process of how they got it. Anyone who has no examples to show may not lead better.
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#45. Go out and lead the world; but never forget to begin by leading yourself first at home. You can't lead the environment if you can't lead yourself in it.
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#46. Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!
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#47. The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!
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#48. A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.
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#49. For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.
Johnny Vegas
#50. The survival rate of your passion depends on the kind of person that leads you!
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#51. Leaders know the great deal of productivity that comes out of a strong self-esteem. They help others to develop this esteem so that productivity can increase.
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#52. Contrary to popular opinion, leaders aren't created out of fame. Fame is just a shadow. When you enter dark times in, it leaves you.
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#53. Two main definitions of a true leader; His presence is noticed and his absence is felt ... !
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#54. You may gain a position, but that does not mean you've gained leadership. You may lose position, but that does not mean you've lost leadership! When you gain true character, you can leadership and when you lose it, you cease to be a leader!
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#55. God has buried your leadership roles in your gifting. To take the lead, you got to unzip the gift bag. It's your responsible to make it happen!
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#56. Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they've already done and go farther than they've reached.
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#57. Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head
feeling and thought
meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.
Daniel Goleman
#58. With a positive attitude, obstacles ahead of you have two options; either they give way for you to pass or they remain as you bore a hole through them and find your way. A leader with a positive attitude never gives up!
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#59. A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.
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#60. Never reject the opportunity to take the first step. The first step is the key to obtaining the experience you have longed for.
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#61. Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!
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#62. I think this is a moment where Donald Trump recognized the Republican establishment was much weaker, the party leaders were much weaker than they thought they were in terms of being able to dictate any outcomes.
Ben Domenech
#63. That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.
Mary McDonnell
#64. A compassionate government does not need to pay too much attention to those who don't have needs. True leadership is to fulfill a need of the needy. People who have needs need attention indeed! Be a true leader!
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#65. Leaders heal; they don't kill. They unite; they don't disintegrate.
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#66. Disruptive innovation is entrepreneurs changing their industry with unique creativity.
Onyi Anyado
#67. You don't become the person you wish to become; you become the person you choose to become. True leadership does not come true wishes; it comes by choices!
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#68. A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!
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#69. You can't lead people if you can't lead yourself. Self-leadership qualities qualifies you to become a co-operate leader.
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#70. When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you.
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#71. People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care.
Dick Costolo
#72. A thought is truly sought only if it has got, in latent or potent form, the strength of 'WE' which sounds as 'V' that stands for 'VICTORY', and so it reflects the power of a true leader who as writer or speaker involves everyone alike at the same level.
Anuj
#74. A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.
John Dewey
#75. It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
Max Beerbohm
#76. They [political leaders ] thought the only problem was the banking system, and if they fixed the banking system, all would be fine. But the banking system and the mortgage problem were symptomatic of some deeper problems, and evidently they still haven't recognized those deeper problems.
Joseph Stiglitz
#77. I have always thought that one of the signs of natural leaders of men (and women) was their readiness to take the necessary pains to keep their followers with them.
Judy LaMarsh
#78. Leaders are deep thinkers. They don't relax for problem to lay eggs before they attempt dealing with them.
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#79. Leaders don't settle for less. When you do so, you rob humanity of what you are supposed to deliver!
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#81. Great leaders inspire us to go places we would never go on our own, and to attempt things we never thought we had in us.
Hans Finzel
#82. He's the leader on this team, I know when Baltimore let us have him, they thought they were giving us a problem. I'll take problems like that anytime.
George Steinbrenner
#83. Think of the air you breathe as love. Changes everything.
Renae A. Sauter
#84. The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!
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#85. Between a plan and it's achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through.
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#86. I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.
Anita Roddick
#87. Your thinking has the potentiality to make you a kid or a king, in it lies your enthronement or dethronement.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#89. Expression is a function of intention and intention emanates from your thought faculty.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#90. As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate ... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.
Benazir Bhutto
#91. You can't give what you don't have. To lead people in a better way, mingle with them in body. But in knowledge, be far ahead of them!
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#92. Leaders think it's possible. They inspire followers to believe in the same good news and it becomes a blessing to them. Leadership is all about inspiring people to believe in what becomes profitable to them!
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#93. Anyone can read a self-help book and start preaching. It takes a lot of courage (and everything else) to change your life before becoming a life coach.
Maddy Malhotra
#94. The bottom line is that you can't lead the person you can't serve!
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#95. A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.
Simon Sinek
#96. I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches ... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.
Jeff Bezos
#97. A leader's attitude tells how often he will be the winner; his character determines how long he will be the winner.
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#98. You can't lead people to where you've not been yourself. When you all get stranded, you need the knowledge of someone who knows the way!
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#99. No matter how you are taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to change your own face into a smiling one!
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#100. Your passion may determine what you can do, but your attitude redefines how far you can go while you do what you can. Your attitude leads you and you lead other people!
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