Quotes About Leadership

Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

Times of upheaval require not just more leadership but more leaders. People at all organizational levels, whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered to share leadership responsibilities.

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

It is not such a fiercesome thing to lead once you see your leadership as part of God's overall plan for His world.

A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.

If leadership is the act of going beyond what is ... it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves.

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

You can't defer if you're the person who's in the leadership position.

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.

Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.

We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?

If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the abandoning those things that do not further the mission is a leadership imperative.