Quotes about leadership
leadership ambition humility
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
leadership organization creative
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.
leadership organization decision
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.
leadership decision levels
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.
leadership ambition humility
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.
leadership people growth
A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.
leadership planets holes
If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?
leadership opportunity men
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself. Jacques Yves Cousteau
leadership wisdom past
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
leadership fighting thoughtful
Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight. Faye Wattleton
leadership christian self
This could all end at any moment...Therefore, be self-controlled. Francis Chan
leadership christian church
I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being.
leadership destiny america
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
leadership humor people
I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
leadership goal support
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. Garry Wills
leadership organization way
To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around. Henry Mintzberg
leadership mistake character
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.
leadership born-leaders taught
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. Harold Geneen
leadership business employee
Always let your employees come to work with a smile. Jack Ma
leadership college average
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.
leadership sports home
An expert is an ordinary fella away from home. Bum Phillips
leadership halloween hate
Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society. Christine Pelosi
leadership years perspective
It's very difficult to evaluate a leader in a very short-term perspective because to be a leader you must be able to have a long-term perspective. You must be able to carry changes which take many years. And this is why you can really only see whether it has been a good leadership after some years have passed. Gro Harlem Brundtland
leadership powerful tools
Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit. Howard Gardner
leadership influence
I have more influence now than when I had the power. Gough Whitlam
leadership helping-others people
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. Harvey S. Firestone
leadership favors majority
The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed. Hassan Rouhani
leadership country lying
Helping to build a better-organized, fair and harmonious world: that idea lies at the heart of my conception of our country's role. Down through the centuries, France has provided answers to the great questions facing mankind. In continuing to do so, France is responding to a genuine demand, displaying leadership and influencing the course of events. Jacques Chirac
leadership wisdom fashion
I...understand that age is kind of awesome. I am fortunate enough to know women like Gloria Steinem - who I think is one of the most stunning women on the planet - [who] doesn't touch her face. Diane Keaton, Annette Bening - all of these fabulous, fearless women who are flawless - they embrace it! Jennifer Aniston
leadership spiritual confused
We choose our leaders, political or spiritual, out of our own confusion, and so they also are confused. Jiddu Krishnamurti
leadership distance numbers
Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have. Jessamyn West
leadership wisdom pain
Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights - though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty - connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair. Glenn Close
leadership people leader
A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. Frank Herbert