Quotes About Leadership

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.

The best leaders realize their success depends on their people.

Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.

More lives are influenced by emulation than exhortation.

I would meet directly with the leadership in Iran.

Germany must continue to champion the world's biggest free single market, and under its leadership, the EU can overcome its internal differences.

Friendship, harmony, and leadership - pushin' people, just givin' people that push, like I would expect them to do for me, they'd do the same for me in return.

People quit people before they quit companies.

A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.

We must remind our politicians that we expect them to speak honestly and to be concerned about real issues, and not simply with the obtaining or retaining of power.

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

Influence is not the same as authority. Authority can be abused by influence gives.

Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.

[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.

Our province needs united leadership and shared purpose in tackling the challenges we face.

Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results

Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders.

To fix our immigration system, we must change our leadership in Washington and we must change it quickly. Sadly, sadly there is no other way.

And it falls to a true leader to see to it that his or her people have an inspiring vision to pursue.

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.

Leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.