Quotes About Leadership

There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow.

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.

Leadership comes by the example you set through your work. It begins from the way you are perceived as a worker and the respect that comes with it.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.

Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.

No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.

Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.

Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

Leadership is about coping with change

Leaders live by choice, not by accident.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.

Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.

Leadership is the art of serving God by helping His people become more like His Son through the indefatigable pursuit of His vision and values.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.