Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust. People want to trust. They're hungry for it. But they're selective. They'll only give it to a motivator, a communicator, a teacher, a real person. Someone who in good times and bad always does the right thing.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.

James C. Collins

The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how brutal (within the bounds of the company's core values), to make the company great. Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.

James C. Collins

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

James C. Collins

If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.

James C. Collins

I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.

James C. Collins

Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make the company great, no matter how big or hard the decisions.

James C. Collins

Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will. Understand that they are very ambitious; but their ambition, first and foremost, is for the company's success. They realize that the most important step they must make to become a Level 5 leader is to subjugate their ego to the company's performance. When asked for interviews, these leaders will agree only if it's about the company and not about them.

James C. Collins

A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.

James C. Collins

If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?

Jacques Yves Cousteau

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

Hillary Clinton

I'm going to keep speaking out about what Donald Trump says, because I'm getting messages from leaders around the world who are just bewildered. They want to know what's going on.

Hillary Clinton

There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights.

Hillary Clinton

You're not a leader if you haven't been elected.

Hillary Clinton

He ran a gas station down in St. Louis... No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.

Evo Morales

I am Catholic but I want to say something to the Catholics. Thank you for some of the bishops who live in rural areas, and are still Catholic. These bishops of the Catholic churches still pray for the poor, and pray for their president who works for the poor, while the leaders of the Catholic Church only defend oligarchy.

Ernest Mandel

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

Erin Hunter

It was his cunning, this confidence and farsightedness in dealing with his own Clan, that made Crookedstar one of the strongest leaders the Clans have ever seen.

Faye Wattleton

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

Ezra Taft Benson

If we have any criticism of our leaders, we invite Satan into our lives and beliefs.

Ezra Taft Benson

I would rather say whoa to a leader than gittie up.

Francis Chan

This could all end at any moment...Therefore, be self-controlled.

Francis Chan

I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being.

George Noory

Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.

George W. Bush

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

George W. Bush

The only way to protect our people, the only way to secure the peace, the only way to control our destiny is by our leadership -- so the United States of America will continue to lead

George W. Bush

In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold.

George W. Bush

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

Garry Wills

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

Henry Mintzberg

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

Henry Louis Gates

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.