Leadership Quotes

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.

The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.

The cautious seldom err.

So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We don't need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

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.

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let's reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.

There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership, it puts it out of the realm of regular people. And that's where the greatest leaders come from - from the people.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.