Quotes About Leadership

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved.

The greatest gift you can give to others is to fulfill YOUR potential, so that you can show them how to fulfill theirs.

He is the Baltimore Ravens. He's their franchise.

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.

Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.

Leaders never outgrow the need to change.

The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

We will still be enormously profitable and by far the most profitable enterprise software company.

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

It's not going to happen if you wait for the boss to tell you to make it happen.

Quitting is leading too.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

As an entrepreneur, if you're the originator, you need to be faster than ever.

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.

To be more successful, learn to distinguish between the truly unimportant and the truly important. Eventually you will be considered not only a genius, but a messiah as well.

Be the answer not the question.

I'd rather be right than President.