Quotes About Leadership

The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.

Ignore the people who tell you it won't work, and hire people who embrace your vision.

Get back to work all of you! I'm not running a happy factory here.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call those people 'leaders'. This is the kind of person you are meant to be and that you can be, if you decide to be.

My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with.

The one important factor that keeps me going is the kind of people I work with.

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.

A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.

We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.

Don't let nobody take care of your business better than you.

Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.

Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.

Never be associated with someone you can't be proud of, whether you work for him or he works for you

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

People work in the system. Management creates the system

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Just as Dr. King was a disciple of Gandhi and Christ, we must now be Dr. King's disciples. Dr. King challenged us to work for a greater humanity. I only hope that we are worthy of his challenge.

When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

He that can work is born to be king of something.

A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.