Leadership Quotes

474. The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.

^{Isaiah Thomas}

475. The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

^{Rush Limbaugh}

476. I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

^{Alan Autry}

477. 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}

478. If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that’s detestable; we have to take action.

^{Jakaya Kikwete}

479. It’s very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

^{Ruth J. Simmons}

480. In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

^{W. E. B. Du Bois}

481. Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

^{John C. Maxwell}

482. In 2006 it was a horrible election year, and, you know, I lost. But I lost because I continued to be a constant conservative, and the last six years I was someone who was a national figure in the sense that I was the third ranking Republican in leadership and I had just run President Bush’s campaign in Pennsylvania.

^{Rick Santorum}

483. You’re born with some things inside you that will allow you to lead, but I think you have to take the bull by the horns. You have to want that leadership position, and then there are things you can do to develop that.

^{Tony Dungy}

484. If you’re running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it’s an advertising company or whether you’re running a hospital.

^{Ken Robinson}

485. I’m a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don’t have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

^{Sheryl Sandberg}

486. Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

^{Donald Rumsfeld}

487. By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully – and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.

^{James Forrestal}

488. In the military, I learned that ‘leadership’ means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

^{Tulsi Gabbard}

489. This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain’t going to happen.

^{Newt Gingrich}

490. I want American Dream growth – lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

^{William J. Clinton}

491. Women account for about 70% of Africa’s food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.

^{Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala}

492. Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let’s use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

^{Pete Domenici}

493. But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

^{Ibrahim Babangida}

494. Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.

^{Jeff Miller}

495. Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

^{Cyril Falls}

496. I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

^{Kamala Harris}

497. Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

^{Bill Owens}

498. This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

^{John Dingell}

499. A revolutionary party is, in its essence, the party of its leader that carries out his ideology and cause, and the main thing in its building is to ensure the unitary character and inheritance of his ideology and leadership.

^{Kim Jong-un}

500. All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades.

^{Josh Groban}

501. It’s kind of like those little electric bumper cars where you drive around and see if you can hit the other guy. That’s exactly what the country is like now. You no longer have the sense of community. Of loyalty. It’s lost its sense of group. It has nothing to do with leadership.

^{Paul Newman}

502. I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

^{John Abizaid}

503. We’ve been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We’re just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.

^{Debbie Wasserman Schultz}

504. I have always admired the innovation and impact Apple products and services have on people’s lives and hope in some small way I can help contribute to the company’s continued success and leadership in changing the world.

^{Angela Ahrendts}

505. Washington doesn’t have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.

^{Mark McKinnon}

506. In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for theworld’s children.

^{Carol Bellamy}

507. Well, I’ve ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I’ve led. But I think that’s part of leadership.

^{Robert M. Gates}

508. Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

^{Alan Autry}

509. I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

^{Angela Davis}

510. I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

^{Deepak Chopra}

511. Through the inspiration of Vaclav’s words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.

^{Michael D. Higgins}

512. The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

^{Max de Pree}

513. Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

^{Jesse Jackson}

514. Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.

^{Andy Stanley}

515. Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt’s time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it’s different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

^{Henry Kissinger}

516. I attended Florida State University on an academic and leadership scholarship, changed my major from biology to broadcasting, and transferred to the University of South Carolina for mylast two years.

^{Ainsley Earhardt}

517. By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we’re going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.

^{Robert Wilson}

518. We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

^{George Soros}

519. 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}

520. In many ways, leadership is about defining reality and inspiring hope, but if you have these great people around you and they know that what they do is going to be recognized, it can be incredibly powerful.

^{Dan Schulman}

521. You can’t have force structure without proper training, without proper equipment, without proper leadership, without proper funding to conduct exercises and perform maintenance.

^{Joseph Dunford}

522. Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful, dedicated teachers in the U.S. work long hours for little pay and, in many cases, insufficient support from their leadership.

^{Andreas Schleicher}

523. Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

^{Ron D. Burton}

524. One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I’d like to see that change by walking the walk.

^{Jennifer Doudna}

525. Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

^{Eric Hoffer}