Quotes About Leadership

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

I never take counsel of my fears.

We're not going to be the first to this party, but we're going to be the best.

It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed.

I am the captain of my soul.

Everyone has an idea, but it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you with the idea.

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

The ultimate power of a successful general staff lies, not in the brilliance of its individual members, but in the cross-fertilisation of its collective abilities.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

There are routes not to be followed, armies not to be attacked, citadels not to be besieged, territory not to be fought over.

There is no question about that. Business is my hobby. It is not a burden to me. In any case Reliance now can run without me.

Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's world. Weak managers are the problem. Weak managers destroy jobs.

If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you'll be the 10th loser.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

Keep your hand on the helm.

The only things that evolve by themselves in an organization are disorder, friction and malperformance.

Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.

Success is not success without a successor.