Leadership is something I was born with.
- Carmelo Anthony
The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.
- Kenneth H Blanchard
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
- Warren G Bennis
Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.
- Michael Bergdahl
Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
- Thornton Wilder
Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
- Larry Bird
Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
- Larry Bird
Leadership is what you need to learn next
- Robert Kiyosaki
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
- Tony Blair
Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.
- Erskine Bowles
Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
- Bill Bradley
Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
- Omar N Bradley
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
- Bertolt Brecht
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
- John Buchan
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
- James Buchanan
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
- James Macgregor Burns
I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
- George W Bush
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
- Deepak Chopra
If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.
- Chris Christie
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
- Jim Rohn
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
- Jim Rohn
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
- Jim Rohn
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
- Stephen Covey
My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?
- Henry Cuellar
True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.
- Sheri L Dew
Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
- Peter Drucker
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
- Peter Drucker
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker
The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
- Tony Dungy
I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.
- Bob Ehrlich
Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
- Robert L Ehrlich
Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.
- Cyril Falls
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
- Harold S Geneen
Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.
- Louis Farrakhan
Leadership is about three-fourths show-the-way and about one-fourth follow-up.
- James E Faust
Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.
- Dianne Feinstein
From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.
- Virginia Foxx
We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose.
- Barack Obama
To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.
- Barack Obama
The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
- Carlos Ghosn
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
- Arnold H Glasow
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
- Seth Godin
The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.
People will follow.
- Seth Godin
Leadership isn't something that people hand to you.... [i]t's a gradual process, one where you take responsibility years before you are given authority. And that's something we can teach.
- Seth Godin
That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.
- Jennifer M Granholm
The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?
Muad'Dib
- Frank Herbert
But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
- Andy Hertzfeld
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
- Theodore Hesburgh
If there were only success in your life, you would not learn anything. Leadership is experience and you are still young. You still have much to learn about our people and war; it should not come easy to you. If it did, you would be robbed of life's most valuable teacher.
- Rachel Higginson
Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.
- Pete Hoekstra
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
- Tom Landry
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
- Tom Landry
Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.
(CBS 60 Minutes interview, March 6, 1983)
- Grace Hopper
The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.
- Mike Huckabee
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
- James Humes
Remember that the mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort, but the robe of responsibility. Accountability is not for the intention but for the deed. You must continue to choose the harder right, instead of the easier wrong.
- Thomas S Monson
Leadership is being the first egg in the omelet.
- Jarod Kintz
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
- Mwai Kibaki
As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.
- Peter King
Leadership is an ever-evolving position.
- Mike Krzyzewski
In this nation, leadership is dollars.
- Norman Lear
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
- Mao Tsetung
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
- Ferdinand Marcos
Leadership is influence.
- John C Maxwell
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
- John C Maxwell
Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.
- John C Maxwell
Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
- Walter Russell Mead
It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.
- Kendrick Meek
I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.
- Denise Morrison
Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.
- John Raleigh Mott
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
- Indra Nooyi
Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.
- Bill Owens
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.
- Tim Pawlenty
My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.
- Sonny Perdue
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
- Tom Peters
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
- Colin Powell
Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.
- Mitt Romney
Leadership, leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
- Mitt Romney
In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.
- Donald Rumsfeld
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
- Norman Schwarzkopf
True leadership is often the mantle of the meek, who are rarely are prepared for such responsibility; which builds character in those who embrace it.
- M J Stoddard
Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.
- Robert Teeter
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
- J Donald Walters
Leadership isn't about power for the sake of power - not true leadership. Instead it deals with modeling behavior you want others to have, and with responsibility for being certain the people you lead are treated equitably, and with respect. Not an easy task. You can't make other people feel anything, or think anything; you can only try to teach them what you want them to feel and think and why you think they should act accordingly.
- Laura Weakley
The first key to leadership is self-control.
- Jack Weatherford
Leadership is about being a servant first.
- Allen West
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
- George Will
- Carmelo Anthony
The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.
- Kenneth H Blanchard
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
- Warren G Bennis
Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.
- Michael Bergdahl
Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
- Thornton Wilder
Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
- Larry Bird
Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
- Larry Bird
Leadership is what you need to learn next
- Robert Kiyosaki
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
- Tony Blair
Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.
- Erskine Bowles
Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
- Bill Bradley
Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
- Omar N Bradley
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
- Bertolt Brecht
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
- John Buchan
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
- James Buchanan
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
- James Macgregor Burns
I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
- George W Bush
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
- Deepak Chopra
If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.
- Chris Christie
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
- Jim Rohn
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
- Jim Rohn
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
- Jim Rohn
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
- Stephen Covey
My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?
- Henry Cuellar
True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.
- Sheri L Dew
Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
- Peter Drucker
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
- Peter Drucker
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker
The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
- Tony Dungy
I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.
- Bob Ehrlich
Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
- Robert L Ehrlich
Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.
- Cyril Falls
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
- Harold S Geneen
Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.
- Louis Farrakhan
Leadership is about three-fourths show-the-way and about one-fourth follow-up.
- James E Faust
Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.
- Dianne Feinstein
From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.
- Virginia Foxx
We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose.
- Barack Obama
To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.
- Barack Obama
The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
- Carlos Ghosn
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
- Arnold H Glasow
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
- Seth Godin
The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.
People will follow.
- Seth Godin
Leadership isn't something that people hand to you.... [i]t's a gradual process, one where you take responsibility years before you are given authority. And that's something we can teach.
- Seth Godin
That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.
- Jennifer M Granholm
The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?
Muad'Dib
- Frank Herbert
But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
- Andy Hertzfeld
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
- Theodore Hesburgh
If there were only success in your life, you would not learn anything. Leadership is experience and you are still young. You still have much to learn about our people and war; it should not come easy to you. If it did, you would be robbed of life's most valuable teacher.
- Rachel Higginson
Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.
- Pete Hoekstra
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
- Tom Landry
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
- Tom Landry
Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.
(CBS 60 Minutes interview, March 6, 1983)
- Grace Hopper
The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.
- Mike Huckabee
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
- James Humes
Remember that the mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort, but the robe of responsibility. Accountability is not for the intention but for the deed. You must continue to choose the harder right, instead of the easier wrong.
- Thomas S Monson
Leadership is being the first egg in the omelet.
- Jarod Kintz
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
- Mwai Kibaki
As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.
- Peter King
Leadership is an ever-evolving position.
- Mike Krzyzewski
In this nation, leadership is dollars.
- Norman Lear
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
- Mao Tsetung
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
- Ferdinand Marcos
Leadership is influence.
- John C Maxwell
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
- John C Maxwell
Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.
- John C Maxwell
Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
- Walter Russell Mead
It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.
- Kendrick Meek
I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.
- Denise Morrison
Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.
- John Raleigh Mott
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
- Indra Nooyi
Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.
- Bill Owens
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.
- Tim Pawlenty
My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.
- Sonny Perdue
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
- Tom Peters
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
- Colin Powell
Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.
- Mitt Romney
Leadership, leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
- Mitt Romney
In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.
- Donald Rumsfeld
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
- Norman Schwarzkopf
True leadership is often the mantle of the meek, who are rarely are prepared for such responsibility; which builds character in those who embrace it.
- M J Stoddard
Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.
- Robert Teeter
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
- J Donald Walters
Leadership isn't about power for the sake of power - not true leadership. Instead it deals with modeling behavior you want others to have, and with responsibility for being certain the people you lead are treated equitably, and with respect. Not an easy task. You can't make other people feel anything, or think anything; you can only try to teach them what you want them to feel and think and why you think they should act accordingly.
- Laura Weakley
The first key to leadership is self-control.
- Jack Weatherford
Leadership is about being a servant first.
- Allen West
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
- George Will
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