Leader Quotes · Page 147

If a leader cannot give you a clear picture of what he or she sees in the future, that person is not…

— John C. Maxwell

What leaders have in common is that each really knows their strengths, has developed their strengths, and can call on the right…

— Donald O. Clifton

Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

— John P. Kotter

We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

People had so much respect for George Mitchell. They wanted to cooperate with him. I think that's a hallmark of a very…

— Barbara Mikulski

I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a…

— John Wooden

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

— Sheri L. Dew

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

I saw that leaders placed too much emphasis on what some call high level strategy, on intellectualizing and philosophizing, and not enough…

— Lawrence Bossidy

I think our responsibility as political leaders today, is to push our economic leaders to change their investment behavior, to decide new…

— Emmanuel Macron

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as…

— Bergen Evans

Germany was a parliamentary democracy with many, many humane and decent people who kept writing in their journals - I've read these…

— Naomi Wolf

A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

We have entered a new and different world-richly interconnected and radically multicentric-in which the traditional holders of power have to move over…

— Walter Truett Anderson

The Truth must be told at all costs, no matter how unpopular it may be. The authentic spiritual leader, having freed himself…

— Vernon Howard

Take the people facing charges in connection with the protests that occurred on the eve of Vladimir Putin's third-term inauguration, May 6,…

— Masha Gessen

The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren't they having a…

— Elton John

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desirable.

— Ordway Tead

“A leader's upbeat mood metaphorically oxygenates the blood of followers—its' a transfusion into the corporate arteries.”

— Bruna Martinuzzi

Although everything has a political connotation today, 'Mulk' is a social film, to be honest. It is not about any political leader,…

— Anubhav Sinha

“A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.”

— Mark W Boyer

I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not…

— Richard Gere

The most striking thing about highly effective leaders is how little they have in common. What one swears by, another warns against.…

— Larry Osborne

“good leadership can help creative people stay on the path to excellence no matter what business they’re in.”

— Ed Catmull

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

— George W. Bush

Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil…

— Winston Churchill

“Of all the sermons that I heard at church growing up, I can’t remember a single message that was preached in any…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“From reserved parking places to separate bathrooms, the last things managers need are extravagant status symbols that tell them that they are…

— Dean M. Schroeder

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely…

— Ken Blanchard

Some people only talk, while some only work. Sardar Patel was one such leader, who always worked without talking.

— Dinsha Patel

I know you’ll be a good Queen, a strong, noble leader, and that’s more than these people deserve,” she said. “But don’t…

— Amanda Hocking

“Leadership doesn’t just flow down the chain of command, but up as well,” he said. “We have to own everything in our…

— Jocko Willink

“Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere alikuwa baba kwa familia yake. Kwa Tanzania alikuwa mlezi; wa ndoto ya haki, amani, uzalendo, ujamaa, na uhuru.”

— Enock Maregesi

I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint…

— Werner Herzog

Leadership is not a contest of likeability. Leadership often boils down to making the tougher choices. You are not in a popularity…

— Paul Polman

You know, being America, being the land of "number ones", everyone wants to be a leader before they follow.

— Branford Marsalis

I think we all have to ask ourselves, as leaders, do we have the right processes in place for complaints to be…

— Nancy Dubuc

No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.

— Fareed Zakaria

It's been 35 years since I left school. Almost nine of them were in government; all the rest were in the private…

— Joe Lhota