Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

Doug Stanhope

What if I don't want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own. I don't want to be led.

Douglas Adams

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Donna Shalala

Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.

Don Tapscott

Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.

Don Tapscott

Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.

Dale Carnegie

Good leaders are scarce; so I'm following myself.

Dale Carnegie

If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.

Corazon Aquino

The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.

Colin Powell

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

Colin Powell

The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.

Colin Powell

Trust is the essence of Leadership.

Colin Powell

Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

Colin Powell

Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.

Colin Powell

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

Colin Powell

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Colin Powell

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Colin Powell

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Colin Powell

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

Colin Powell

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

Colin Powell

You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

Dan Hampton

Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.

Dan Jenkins

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

Clint Eastwood

It's not about you. It's about them.

Donald Trump

This is a problem that Islam has. I called upon Muslim leaders to call out and denounce these murders, these terrorists. Decrying violence isn`t enough.

Donald Trump

If we had leaders that knew what they were doing, which we don't.

Donald Trump

Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders.

Donald Trump

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

Dwight L. Moody

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

Duffy Daugherty

The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.

Confucius

Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path.

Confucius

To become a leader, you must first become a human being