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Quotes About People

The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.
~ James MacGregor Burns
If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.
~ Jim Rohn
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
~ Ross Perot
You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.
~ John Howard
What helps people, helps business.
~ Leo Burnett
An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
~ H. Rap Brown
Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.
~ Max De Pree
Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .
~ Peter Drucker
If we lose sight of people, we lose sight of the very purpose of leadership.
~ Tony Dungy
And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.
~ Ronald A. Heifetz
A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.
~ Robert Ley
One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.
~ Bill Hybels
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.
~ George Barna
I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.
~ Denise Morrison
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.
~ Rosalynn Carter
I must say that part of our national wealth is not only the nation's people but those people who lead them.
~ Peter Cosgrove
If you as a pastor don't have a passion for evangelism then don't be surprised if your people done either.
~ Aubrey Malphurs
If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.
~ Bear Bryant
The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.
~ Elizabeth Dole
Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.
~ Grace Lee Boggs
Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.
~ Charlotte Bunch
What we need is new leadership that takes conservative principles and applies them so that people can rise up.
~ Jeb Bush
Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.
~ John C. Maxwell
Leadership is all about people … and getting the most out of people.
~ Colin Powell