Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

"The view only changes for the lead dog"

Norman O. Brown, Philosopher

"You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself"

Gene Mauch, Athlete

"Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever, then it becomes counterproductive"

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead"

Bill Hybels, Clergyman

"Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'"

Rowan Williams, Theologian

"Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic"

Horst Koehler, Statesman

"The greatest glory of a king is to leave behind a kingdom that is prosperous, peaceful, and just"

Philip III, Royalty

"I am the servant of God. He has chosen me for this work. I have come to govern, not to be governed"

Philip II of Spain, Royalty

"Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well"

Alan Cranston, Politician

"Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership"

James MacGregor Burns, Author

"The Fuhrer is always right. I sense it"

Robert Ley, Soldier

"Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader"

Indra Nooyi, Businessman

"Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique"

James MacGregor Burns, Author

"I work on OpenBSD full-time as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system"

Theo de Raadt, Scientist

"I do think that it's extremely important with this character, show her assuming power with a great deal of grace, and find out how to do things she won't like - the things she's called upon to do"

Mary McDonnell, Actress

"Not everyone can lead worship"

Michael W. Smith, Musician

"As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man"

Roger Daltrey, Musician

"The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people"

Paulo Freire, Educator

"This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership"

Jim Cooper, Politician

"It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example"

Warren Cuccurullo, Musician

"Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent"

Richie Benaud, Athlete

"I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly"

Diana Ross, Actress

"Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that"

Indra Nooyi, Businessman

"If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant"

Trevor Nunn, Director

"The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that"

Bill Kurtis, Journalist

"My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done"

Bernadette Devlin, Politician

"I took an oath to protect the people of Arizona, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to keep pushing in that direction"

Jan Brewer, Politician

"The best governor in the world is the person who never really planned to be governor"

Rob Simmons, Politician

"One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't"

Lin Biao, Politician

"We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do"

Joe Manchin, Politician

"Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are"

Oswald Mosley, Politician

"People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?"

Kathleen Parker, Journalist

"You're going to be hearing a lot about one scrappy president"

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Politician

"Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint"

Lewis H. Lapham, Editor

"People don't follow titles, they follow courage"

William Wells Brown, Activist

"Leadership must be established from the top down"

Sam Nunn, Politician

"Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers"

John Spencer, Actor

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