Leadership Quotes

318. The cost of leadership is self-interest.

^{Simon Sinek}

319. 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}

320. The Congress doesn’t have the leadership. What exactly is Rahul Gandhi doing is the question… sometimes he says something good, at times he makes a mess.

^{Uddhav Thackeray}

321. Two different styles of leadership. LeBron, very encouraging, bringing everybody along, and Kobe, he’s testing you, seeing what you gonna give him. If he gonna get at you, he gonna screamat you, he gonna cuss, he gonna do whatever it is. He had his own way of leading guys as well. It’s two different sides. I’m just blessed to see both of them.

^{Jordan Clarkson}

322. Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

^{Rush Limbaugh}

323. Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership – it’s an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.

^{Richard Foster}

324. I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.

^{Anne Campbell}

325. I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character – teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

^{Mo Rocca}

326. There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They’re the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

^{Howard Dean}

327. If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.

^{Sheryl Sandberg}

328. I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

^{Arnold Schwarzenegger}

329. 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}

330. Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

^{Alan Autry}

331. Very often, we think of leadership being at the very top of an organisation. I think what’s unique about ABG is that we have a very strong cadre of leaders across the organisation who are highly empowered and therefore play a very major role in the growth and evolution of the organization.

^{Kumar Mangalam Birla}

332. Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

^{Jesse Jackson}

333. For centuries, America has led the world on a long march toward freedom and democracy. Let’s reclaim our clean energy leadership and lead the world toward clean energy independence.

^{John Garamendi}

334. Not everybody is created equal, and it’s important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.

^{Anne M. Mulcahy}

335. We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger.

^{Bernie Sanders}

336. Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.

^{Frances Hesselbein}

337. Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

^{James Humes}

338. I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.

^{Margaret J. Wheatley}

339. One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

^{Arnold H. Glasow}

340. IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.

^{John Patrick}

341. Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

^{Andy Stanley}

342. This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

^{Carter G. Woodson}

343. Positive leadership – conveying the idea that there is always a way forward – is so important, because that is what you are here for – to figure out how to move the organization forward. Critical to doing that is reinforcing the idea that everyone is included.

^{Alan Mulally}

344. Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world – leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world.

^{John O. Brennan}

345. It’s a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I’m not going to drop the ball on my shift.

^{Abdullah II of Jordan}

346. It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

^{Alan Dershowitz}

347. From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?

^{W. E. B. Du Bois}

348. Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

^{Angela Davis}

349. One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

^{Margaret Heffernan}

350. One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

^{C. L. R. James}

351. At IBM, if we kept our same leadership for 36 years, we’d be bankrupt.

^{Scott Howell}

352. In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

^{Adam Schiff}

353. The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

^{Ronald Reagan}

354. I think leadership is not something you learn; it’s something you discover.

^{Myles Munroe}

355. As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.

^{Michelle Bachelet}

356. Leadership is not a quantitative thing. People either smell it in you, or they don’t.

^{Sergio Marchionne}

357. I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

^{Dylan Lauren}

358. We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

^{Marco Rubio}

359. In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else’s sake – to abandon our own desires and put our child’s interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

^{Charles Stanley}

360. The Vatican’s recognition of the State of Israel in 1997 could not have occurred without John Paul’s leadership.

^{David Novak}

361. Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.

^{Frederick W. Smith}

362. I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

^{George W. Bush}

363. Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.

^{Justin Trudeau}

364. Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

^{Frederick Reines}

365. Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.

^{Tom Vilsack}

366. In the absence of honesty from the Conservative party leadership, it is Labour’s duty to spell out the very real consequences of a no-deal Brexit. It is also our duty to take whatever steps are necessary to prevent it.

^{Keir Starmer}