532 private quotes tagged leadership

“Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.” — James Cash Penney

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“Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.” — Donald Rumsfeld

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“The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.” — Casey Stengel

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“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.” — Iain Duncan Smith

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“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“You have to think anyway, so why not think big?” — Donald Trump

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“When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.” — Roy E. Disney

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“If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.” — Dee Hock

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“Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.” — Louis Farrakhan

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“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” — John Buchan

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“Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.” — Tom Hopkins

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“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.” — Madeleine Albright

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“I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.” — Margaret J. Wheatley

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“Leadership does not depend on being right.” — Ivan Illich

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“Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.” — Alan Autry

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“I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.” — Paul Wellstone

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“Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.” — Herman Cain

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“The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.” — Arthur Scargill

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“Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.” — David Cameron

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“To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.” — Jessica Lange

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“Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.” — John Podhoretz

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“I definitely wasn't cool in high school. I really wasn't. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things.” — Dianna Agron

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“The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” — Faye Wattleton

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“But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.” — William Julius Wilson

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