Category: Quotes About Leadership

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. -Erskine Bowles

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project. -Bill Owens

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. -Charles Williams

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. -Henry Ward Beecher

Character matters leadership descends from character. -Rush Limbaugh

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state. -Alan Dershowitz

Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still. -Walter Russell Mead

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs. -Ron D. Burton

Leadership must be established from the top down. -Sam Nunn

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it. -Norman Schwarzkopf

I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences. -Margaret J. Wheatley

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. -Henry J. Kaiser

The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them. -Debbie Wasserman Schultz

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart. -An Wang

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership. -Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view. -Francois Hollande

I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology. -William J. Clinton

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership. -Robert M. Gates

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. -Andrew Carnegie

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them. -Carlos Ghosn

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership. -Bill Owens