Top Leader Quotes

#1. I wonder what really goes on in the minds of Church leadership who know of the data concerning the Book of Abraham, the new data on the First Vision, etc ... It would tend to devastate the Church if a top leader were to announce the facts.

Thomas Ferguson

#2. Susie, the Weight Watchers leader, helped herself to a second helping of the sweet potatoes with the marshmallows on top,

Fannie Flagg

#3. My research debunks the myth that many people seem to have ... that you become a leader by fighting your way to the top. Rather, you become a leader by helping others to the top. Helping your employees is as important, and many times more so, than trying to get the most work out of them.

William Cohen

#4. Today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation. It's time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and work to restore America's place as the world leader in science and technology.

Barack Obama

#5. A leader's role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.

Jack Welch

#6. I don't like sweating the details, and I'm pretty disorganized. To be a better leader, I need to stay on top of these shortcomings, and being reminded really helps.

Scott Weiss

#7. My main goal is to be the No. 1 American and the No. 1 player in the world. If an American is on top of the leader board every week, it will bring more people into the game of golf.

Paula Creamer

#8. Unlike top management at Enron, exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.

Warren G. Bennis

#9. On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.

Gary Locke

#10. The leader is the organization's top strategist ... systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there.

Bill Hybels

#11. There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.

Buzz Aldrin

#12. Your organization will take on the personality of its top leaders

Abraham Lincoln

#13. Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, then you're not leading well.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

#14. You won't be surprised to know, therefore, that the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses are the same organisation at the top level where the Elders of the Mormons and the leaders of the Watchtower Society operate a very different agenda to the one their followers believe.

David Icke

#15. Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.

Joseph Badaracco

#16. Most success depends on colleagues, on the team. People at the top have large egos, but you must never say 'I': it's always 'we'.

Frank Lampl

#17. It's important for a leader to hear about his blind spots on a regular basis so working on them is periodically top of mind.

Scott Weiss

#18. And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

Ernest Mandel

#19. A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.

Marianne Williamson

#20. I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader.

Richard Branson

#21. To sneer at others for not believing the same as you is the height of arrogance and elitism, the top failings of any leader who governs at the grace of the people.

Robert J. Crane

#22. I think that the main issue with inequality is not the gap between the rich and the poor. It is the gap between the earnings of top business leaders and the salaries of academics and journalists.

Arnold Kling

#23. Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that.

Barack Obama

#24. The level of football in England is the top. English football is the leader in the world.

Pele

#25. Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.

Wendy Davis

#26. The man on the top of the hierarchy has created social fear in order for us to accept him as the leader.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#27. I think business leaders all over the world should not just think of how we can make lots of money, which is fine, but to take some of the problems in the world and get out there and tackle them using business. I think that if businesses do that we can get on top of these problems.

Richard Branson

#28. A star wants to see himself rise to the top.
A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.

Simon Sinek

#29. The best place for a leader isn't always at the top position. It is the place where they can serve the best and add the most value to other people.

John C. Maxwell

#30. If you're one of the fortunate few on this Earth with a pass to enter the gates of Augusta National on Masters Sunday, you don't leave early. You just don't. If it's a Masters Sunday when Tiger Woods is near the top of the leader board, you really don't leave early.

Willie Geist

#31. 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.

Israelmore Ayivor

#32. When a technology, regardless of how different and difficult it is, sustains the trajectory of performance improvement, my research asserts that the leaders in the prior generation of technology are likely to end up on top of their industry at the end of the transition.

Clayton Christensen