Quotes about Leadership

“Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.”

“The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.”

“Bill Gates can't control a high-level-energy dog, because his energy is very low, very calm. Very intellectual. A dog doesn't see that as leadership.”

“What helps people, helps business.”

“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”

“At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.”

“I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.”

“I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.”

“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.”

“Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.”

“The entire world is talking about a leadership crisis in India. There is monumental corruption. Investigations into cases of corruption are politically calibrated.”

“In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.”

“The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.”

“The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.”

“Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.”

“Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.”

“On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.”

“I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.”

“Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.”

“The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.”

“Leadership does not depend on being right.”