Quotes About Leadership

We could summarize the views of our Christian heroes across the centuries with a sentence from Jonathan Edwards: "Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

Many of the great movements of God can be traced to a small group of people He called together to begin praying.

Ultimately, a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus. I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity.

The best leaders never stop learning.

Leadership never ascends from the pew to the pulpit, but invariably descends from the pulpit to the pew.

James MacGregor Burns wrote that "the Leader's fundamental act is to induce people to be aware or conscious of what they feel – to feel their true needs so strongly, to define their values so meaningfully, that they can be moved to purposeful action.

The only way you can motivate people is to communicate with them." Effective communication also shapes values for people by "not only bringing company philosophy to life . . . ," as Peters and Austin put it, but also "helps newcomers understand how shared values affect individual performance.

Invariably an organization takes on the personality of its top leader, providing that individual is in touch with the members of the organization. If the leader is petty, the subordinates will be petty. But if the leader is encouraging, optimistic, and courteous, then the vast majority of the workers in the organization will be as well.

Never crush a man out, thereby making him and his friends permanent enemies of your organization.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions.

If subordinates, or people in general, know that they genuinely have easy access to their leader, they'll tend to view the leader in a more positive, trustworthy light.

We need a great president.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.

I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.'

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.

I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.

The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

MY STYLE of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I'm after.

A human being who has mastered the self cannot be dominated by any other person; to the contrary, there is a strong tendency for others to seek to emulate and follow such a master, because they intuitively recognize the value of self-control.