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Quotes About Leadership

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
~ Peter Drucker
The person who works harder when the boss isn't around is headed straight for a better job.
~ Napoleon Hill
As President, I would work toward international creation of a new world order.
~ Nelson Rockefeller
I hate the word assistant. No one works for me. I work with everyone because I couldn't do anything without the people that I work with.
~ Sandra Bullock
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions
~ Swami Vivekananda
Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.
~ Nandan Nilekani
The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.
~ Peter Drucker
Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.
~ Iqbal Quadir
Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.
~ John Suckling
I think leadership is more than being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity and work ethic.
~ Steve Largent
Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.
~ Joe Klein
Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.
~ Millicent Fenwick
The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.
~ Scott Adams
The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader's true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.
~ Simon Sinek
It's the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with the most innovative people on Earth.
~ Tim Cook
I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
~ Adam Braun
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
~ Wilferd Peterson
I work through teams. It's the only way I know how to work.
~ Angela Ahrendts
In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.
~ Laurence J. Peter
I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.
~ Scott Walker
God is always at work, though we cannot see it, preparing people he has chosen for leadership. When the crisis comes, God fits His appointee into the place ordained for him.
~ J. Oswald Sanders
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.
~ Richard Baxter
Every time that I've won a championship I've looked at my guys around me and looked at their work ethic and said 'You know what, I'm going to win it this year. I feel that way now.
~ Shaquille O'Neal