Quotes about Leadership

“Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.”

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”

“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.”

“I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.”

“Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.”

“I bought my own home in 2004. It's a sanctuary for my family and a place of peace and calm. It's key for anyone committed to leadership and success to avoid the noise and focus on their best opportunities.”

“I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.”

“A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.”

“Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.”

“Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.”

“Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.”

“There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.”

“One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.”

“Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.”

“Individual and corporate support is vital to building on London's leadership in the arts, and I hope others will join me in wanting to build on the National's role at the heart of modern theatre and sustaining it long into the future.”

“Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.”

“We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.”

“I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'”

“In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed.”

“At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.”

“Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.”