Quotes About Leadership

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.

It is important that voters be as informed as possible when they enter the polls May 9 to determine who has the experience, integrity and vision to lead Nebraska to excellence.

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the ethics of excellence.

It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.

Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.

Competition breeds excellence, including in the GOP race.

Be an evangelist with your excellence.

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.

People who personify excellence are people who invoke the same in others.