Leadership Quotes

So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We don't need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

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

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

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.

Leadership is about being a servant first.

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

Leadership is influence.

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.

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.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.

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.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

Example is leadership.