Whether you are a business leader or political leader, you…

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.

— Stephen Covey

What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder…

— Juan Somavia

Business leaders should show what our political leaders seem to lack - that is, a common-sense view of the times.

— William M. Daley

A few years ago the idea that extreme poverty was harmful was on the fringes of the economic and political debate. But having made…

— Winnie Byanyima

Obviously, our business leaders yield enormous influence on our political leaders, and they have a duty to use that influence for the greater good.…

— Shakira

“We need leaders, we need political leaders and we need business leaders, and my hope for this book is that it helps create that…

— James White Fellow of INSTAAR

“Overall, more than fifty-nine thousand factories and production facilities were shut down all across America over the last decade, and employment in the core…

— Hedrick Smith

“The natural evolution from design doing to design thinking reflects the growing recognition on the part of today’s business leaders that design has become…

— Tim Brown

Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Jim Hackett, the CEO of Steelcase, is one of a small number of enlightened business leaders who understand that a steady flow of innovative…

— Tim Brown

Fear is the single biggest barrier to creativity. Unless we're brave enough to risk looking foolish, we'll inevitably find ourselves sticking to the status…

— Josh Linkner

The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social…

— Ludwig von Mises

By appeasing the anti-racism lobby and affirming its culture of grievance, public institutions and business leaders are not making Britain a fairer place. In…

— Munira Mirza

Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it…

— Richard Branson

Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many other great…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt