Quotes About Leadership

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.

Leadership is not about a title, degree or level. Anybody can lead at any time.

Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.

While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.

A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.

No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction.

Serious times require strong leadership.

It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.

Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.

I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

The greatest challenge of Leadership maintaining personal conviction in a globalized world.