Leadership Quotes · Page 164

Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

— Young Jeezy

“People are not dumb. They feel if you want rather to lead them than to love them.”

— Alin Sav

For a leader to pick his own successor is a feudal practice.

— Deng Xiaoping

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

— Andrew Carnegie

“Disruptive innovation is entrepreneurs changing their industry with unique creativity.”

— Onyi Anyado

“If you perceive right you receive right. If you perceive wrong you receive wrong.”

— John Paul Warren

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

— Condoleezza Rice

Growing other leaders from the ranks isn't just the duty of the leader, it's an obligation.

— Warren G. Bennis

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

— John Buchan

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from…

— Seth Godin

It is always great to see technology leaders like Ginni Rometty, Marissa Mayer, and Meg Whitman breaking through as a new generation…

— Naveen Jain

Unconditional kindness removes the question of self worthiness. Be kind to everyone you meet, you never know the positive difference in anothers…

— Bobby Compton

I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. I've always been used to a certain amount of…

— Holly Hunter

All disruptive innovators make it easier and more affordable for people to do what matters to them, and follow a strategy that…

— Scott D. Anthony

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can…

— Ronald A. Heifetz

He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On…

— Gerald R. Ford

Modern capitalism needs men who cooperate smoothly and in large numbers; who want to consume more and more; and whose tastes are…

— Erich Fromm

What's important is that I do my job really well, that I build great products and that I'm a great leader. All…

— Susan Wojcicki

My job as majority leader is be supportive of our troops, try to have input as decisions are made and to look…

— Trent Lott

Franklin Roosevelt is one of the great leaders because he does get along with other people. He makes this huge effort. He's…

— Oliver Stone

One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for…

— Sanford I. Weill

“It is a sad irony that many countries possessing natural resources with high income potential have floundered into civil strife as factions…

— Guy Standing

Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of…

— Mary Parker Follett

“But in writing it leaves a lot up to my imagination.  I don’t have to worry if I’m attracted to the hero,…

— Jade C. Jamison

“Genius thinks out of box when leader adjusts the size of box.”

— Toba Beta

I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful leader.

— Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion.

— Charles Krauthammer

“You can’t build your dreams on an empty tank. Rest isn’t indulgent—it’s essential for your success.”

— Felecia Etienne

“I’ve never been motivated by money – it doesn’t drive Me.”

— Germany Kent

In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.

— David S. Broder

I don't take big leads, but I am fast enough to steal. It's just that I don't attempt it as much.

— Xander Bogaerts

“Don’t look for leadership just at the top of the tree. Listen to leadership wherever it is expressed.”

— Phil Dourado

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

— Alton Brown

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

— John Henry Newman

It's lonely at the top, so you better know why you are there.

— John C. Maxwell

We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.

— Lech Walesa

Leadership requires a non-stop demand of fortitude from Day 1 to the end.

— Bill Hybels

Fearless leaders are needed to defend our culture, not agreeable milquetoasts.

— Miranda Devine

Leadership is about three-fourths show-the-way and about one-fourth follow-up.

— James E. Faust

I don't want to be a follower; I want to be a leader and create new waves.

— J Balvin