Quotes About Leadership

In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer.

We are governed not by armies and police but by ideas.

You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.

When the fox preaches, look to your geese.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.

Leaders of organisations, political parties and large businesses frequently fail to talk in a straight and entirely truthful fashion.

Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

There are very few black-and-white truths in management or in business, but one that I have found is that people either hire people who are smarter than them, or people hire people they can control.

History is littered with leaders and movements, now long vanished and mostly forgotten, who failed to get to the deep truths of how and why their defeat happened.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.

I try to think of myself as a lion, bringing down the kill, controlling the jungle. A lion controls his jungle.

I try to hire good people and let them do their job and don't question how they do things.

I need time, but as soon as possible, we are going to try to create team spirit. That is the most important thing. After that, you can create tactics, but we have to create something special with ourselves.

I think it's my responsibility, as a person of influence... to sometimes try to do what I can.