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Quotes About Leadership

The best advice I got throughout my career was understanding what my current managers' pains and challenges are - it's not always just about hitting the number.
~ Unknown
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
We support Hillary [Clinton]. We're saying that strongly. "I'm with her," I don't think that we can be any less strident. She's the best person for the job.
~ Kathleen Hanna
I was very proud to be part of the Million Man March. I think it's one of the best things that I ever did.
~ Keith Ellison
Coachable people seek out those who speak truth to them, even if it is a painful truth, because it protects them and it makes them a better person and leader.
~ Gary Rohrmayer
I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.
~ John Abizaid
Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.
~ Martin O'Malley
It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Now you'll get to see how I can really run a building, darlin. Not even a cracked knee to hold me back, yeah? What a nice birthday present.
~ Marie Lu
I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.
~ Ratan Tata
Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.
~ Sam Walton
On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.
~ Satoru Iwata
Individuals don't win in business, teams do.
~ Sam Walton
We don't have business problems we have people problems. When we take care of our people problems, most of our business problems are automatically resolved
~ Shiv Khera
If you want a successful business, your people must feel that you are working for them - not that they are working for you.
~ Sam Walton
Motivate them, train them, care about them, and make winners out of them... they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.
~ J. Willard Marriott
Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
~ Steve Jobs
Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the business.
~ J. Willard Marriott
If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.
~ Robert Noyce
Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be. When you're behind, you have to spend your energy catching up.
~ Robert Noyce
There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.
~ Peter Drucker
Quality has to be caused, not controlled.
~ Phil Crosby
Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.
~ John Naisbitt
In business, people are held accountable. In Washington, nobody is held accountable. In business, people are judged on results. In Washington, people are measured by their ability to get reelected.
~ Ross Perot