532 private quotes tagged leadership

“In fair weather prepare for foul.”— Thomas Fuller

“I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.”— R. Buckminster Fuller

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”— Steve Jobs

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.”— Andrew Carnegie

“The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.”— Tony Dungy

“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”— John D. Rockefeller

“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

“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”— J. P. Morgan

“A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.”— Jim Rohn

“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”— John D. Rockefeller

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

“We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?”— Thomas Frank

“Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.”— Jesse Jackson

“A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.”— Henry A. Kissinger

“All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.”— Jim Ramstad

“Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.”— Peer Steinbruck

“My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.”— Duke Ellington

“I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?”— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.”— Harold S. Geneen

“It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.”— King Abdullah II

“You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.”— An Wang

“President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.”— Mark Udall

“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.”— Irving Babbitt

“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.”— E. Joseph Cossman

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.”— Sam Walton