Quotes About Leadership

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it.

I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases.

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.

Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

He who follows another will never overtake him

Your number one customers are your people. Look after employees first and then customers last.

Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

If not us, then who? If not now, then when?

The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you're going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to 'be different'.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.