Quotes about Leadership

“Leadership is something I was born with.”

“Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.”

“A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.”

“There is nothing that Bitcoin can do which Ethereum can't. While Ethereum is less battle-tested, it is moving faster, has better leadership, and has more developer mindshare.”

“I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?”

“We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.”

“Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.”

“Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.”

“A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.”

“Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.”

“My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.”

“Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.”

“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”

“On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.”

“Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission.”

“The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.”

“But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.”

“Since the end of World War II, American leadership has been essential to maintain world peace. Whether we liked it or not, we were the world's policeman. There was no other cop on the beat. Now, that leadership is gone. So, increasingly, will be peace.”

“The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.”

“Every team has leadership. The leadership is the best players. But there's positive leadership, and there's negative leadership.”

“I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.”