Leadership Quotes · Page 211

One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

— Ben Chifley

“If you're going to lead people, you've got to have somewhere to go.”

— S.E. Hinton

Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values.

— Walt Disney

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

— Haley Barbour

Well, a lead is the most important thing about the story.

— Kurt Loder

To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them.

— John C. Maxwell

Audiences need to keep demanding shows with strong female leads.

— Alisha Boe

First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.

— Ron Barber

I was able to look at football as something that God was allowing me to do, not something that should define me.…

— Tony Dungy

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

— James M. Kouzes

The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard…

— Ronald Reagan

“By 1872, under Grant’s leadership, the Ku Klux Klan had been smashed in the South. (Its later twentieth-century incarnation had no connection…

— Ron Chernow

Weak leaders of churches blame people and circumstances. Breakout church leaders accept responsibility and see God's possibilities in even difficult situations.

— Thom S. Rainer

America and Japan are the two leading world economies in terms of technology and innovative products. And in software, information-age technology and…

— Bill Gates

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of…

— Anonymous

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes, their…

— Patrick Lencioni

The United States took the lead in shaping the norms, rules and institutions of what became the liberal international order, including the…

— Antony Blinken

I feel like, if the guys can look at me in the huddle and see a calm and collected face, that they're…

— Matt Flynn

Every improv must be song specific. It has to grow organically out of the particular elements involved or it's just glib self-expression.…

— David First

While big-business leaders and firms can be highly productive, servants of consumers in a free market economy, they are also all too…

— Murray Rothbard

“But I knew something that Elena hadn't. That the measure of a true queen didn't lie in her magic. It had more…

— Kimberly Derting

In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by…

— Marshall Fritz

I am the head of development at Giant Spacekat, a Boston-based studio that's an industry leader in making games for women. We…

— Brianna Wu

I came to the San Francisco 49ers with a specific goal, to implement what I call the Standard of Performance. It was…

— Bill Walsh

I think Unai did a great job and was a great leader, and a fantastic coach.

— Freddie Ljungberg

As women we are very accustomed to putting ourselves in the shoes of male leads.

— Marielle Heller

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

— Joshua Ferris

Every little thing you do leads up to a bigger thing.

— Georges St-Pierre

We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.

— Francis Chan

You need a strong, tough leader to restore America's greatness. This is the best person to do that.

— Chris Christie

I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

— Werner Herzog

Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team.

— Orrin Woodward

Love leads us into mystery where no one can say what comes next, or how, or why.

— Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

While we need to provide leadership and stability to the world, we should do that through diplomacy.

— Kevin de Leon

As it goes with leaders, so it goes with the whole organization.

— Craig Groeschel

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

— Erskine Bowles

“What you don't deal with today, will live to deal with you tomorrow.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“Any one can be a leader is often a passing myth, not always a lasting truth.”

— Neena Verma

Objective leaders identify their unproductive mental models and tweak them for greater effectiveness.

— Elizabeth Thornton

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.

— Bill Hybels