Quotes about leaders
leadership giving energy
The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to. Ralph Waldo Emerson
leadership nice dirty
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had. Ralph Waldo Emerson
leadership imagination seeing
Imagination is a very high sort of seeing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
leadership eye men
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye. Ralph Waldo Emerson
leadership empowerment roles
Learning has replaced control as the fundamental role of management. Shoshana Zuboff
leadership japan united-states
The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage. Shinzo Abe
leadership vision progress
A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress. Lee Kuan Yew
leadership people needs
People tend to look at their businesses from the inside out - that is, they get so focused on making and selling their products that they lose awareness of the needs and buying behaviors of their customers. Lawrence Bossidy
leadership space people
It's fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the very beginning, people said you couldn't make relational databases fast enough to be commercially viable. I thought we could, and we were the first to do it. But we took tremendous abuse until IBM said, "Oh yeah, this stuff is good." Larry Ellison
leadership country military
World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century. Neil Sheehan
leadership years perspective
Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days. Marco Rubio
leadership organization steps
Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward. Marco Rubio
leadership reality compassion
We do have to treat people the way Americans always treat people, with the highest level of compassion and care. But they will have to be returned, because that is the law. If you ignore that, if you don't apply that - as heartbreaking as it may be - you are basically telling another 80,000 people to try to come. Marco Rubio
leadership vision public-opinion
We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity. Marco Rubio
leadership vision needs
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. Rudy Giuliani
leadership appreciation team-building
Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune Sam Walton
leadership sports california
We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals. Ronald Reagan
leadership tests
The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. Robert K. Greenleaf
leadership firsts needs
Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others. Robert K. Greenleaf
leadership future-leaders firsts
Good leaders must first become good servants. Robert K. Greenleaf
leadership light differences
The best leaders are clear. They continually light the way, and in the process, let each person know that what they do makes a difference. The best test as a leader is: Do those served grow as persons; do they become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become leaders? Robert K. Greenleaf
leadership sports dream
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence. Walt Disney
leadership men years
I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years. Walt Whitman
leadership men example
Produce great men, the rest follows. Walt Whitman
leadership money real
Tactics and strategies ought to be based on what the real world is, and we do not have the political power to do this. We're not about to shut the government down over the fact that we cannot, only controlling one house of Congress, tell the president that we're not going to fund any portion of [Obamacare]. Because we can't do that. Tom Coburn
leadership australia water
I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water. Tim Costello
leadership sports humility
Humility is always one play away. Tim Foley
leadership people helping
A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under. Sam Houston
leadership courage tired
Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way. Rumi
leadership leader grows
It takes leaders to grow other leaders. Roy Blunt
leadership determination destiny
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands. Rosa Luxemburg
leadership reality creating
The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process. Rosa Luxemburg
leadership wisdom winning
If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change. Rosabeth Moss Kanter