Quotes about Leadership

“I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.”

“Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.”

“An important part of leadership is being able to hold two things in your mind at once: Dealing with the reality, whatever it may be, and focus on hope for the future. Any leader helping an organization through challenges needs to be able to do both.”

“True leadership knows not to go to extremes but knows how to confront and appreciate challenges.”

“We all know business financial performance improves when more women are in senior levels of management and leadership.”

“What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.”

“For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.”

“I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.”

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”

“I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times, they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team.”

“Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.”

“I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.”

“Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.”

“One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.”

“Research shows that girls look at leadership differently than boys.”

“Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture.”

“Despite the increasingly presidential style of political leadership in our country, teamwork is essential.”

“And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.”

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”

“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.”

“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”