Leadership Quotes

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

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.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.

Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

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.

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.

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

Strong convictions precede great actions.

I think that if Republicans are given the reins of leadership in the House or Senate or both, we will have to govern in a way - at least put forward solutions whether or not the president goes along with them or not, that deal with these long-term challenges.