Quotes About Leadership

I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal field when she was a practicing lawyer are unqualified.

The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

Leadership is not about me, it's about our country.

O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!

I was involved in a number of efforts to take out Al Qaida leadership when I was secretary of state, including, of course, taking out [Usama] bin Laden.

Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger in the air. Our job is to listen, and then lead.

One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was to be someone I was not.

Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

In leadership we teach we teach;Don't send your ducks to eagle school because it wont help.Ducks finishes eagle school,sees his first rabbit, makes him a friend.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.

The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.

If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.

Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy.

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.

I hired top-notch people, trusted them to do their jobs, and then came to grips with the fact that I wouldn't be coaching as much.

On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.

The present Indian government, however, is neither able or willing to accept the challenge and to provide the leadership in breaking the resistance of urban and rural interests.

Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.