Quotes About Leadership

I mean that in the absence of food, baboons will organize themselves to find a meal, but in the absence of leopards they will never organize themselves to find a leopard.

This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood.

Man's place is to be the first without being the last . . . . [I]t's man's place to be the teacher of all the rest who are capable of becoming what he's become.

In hierarchal organizations, the boss is a supreme being. In tribal organizations, the boss is just another worker.

And if being civilized means anything at all, it should mean you're the leaders of the club, not its only criminals and destroyers.

Turkey's regional role, which Erdo?an describes as "a continuation of the Ottomans"? Turkey's "accretion of history, and geographic location," he says, make it "the only country that can lead the Muslim world.

Beijing's "Made in China" 2025 strategy, enunciated in 2017, aims to make China a leader in ten high-tech industries.

It took two phone calls in 2009 to convince Charif Souki to turn around the business he was trying to build.

Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 was not the first such vision in the neighborhood. It had been preceded a decade earlier by another Vision 2030, this by its neighbor Abu Dhabi, which has been a pacesetter in diversifying.

A singular cartographic combatant led the charge—Bai Meichu, one of China's most influential and respected geographers.

For me, there is no strategy that is divorced from profitability

Starting off with a tiny trucking company that he built into a major enterprise, McLean went on to unleash the container revolution in world shipping that is the foundation of today's global economy.

I say this to women all the time: If you've got the passion, you believe in making change, and you've got an issue or policy or something that you want to do, believe in it. Have confidence in yourself. You can do it.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us.

Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.

Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.

"Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone."

I want my husband to lead me and our family. But in order for him to do that I must be willing to submit to his lead. This does not mean I surrender my opinions or input or wisdom…it means I surrender my grip of control and selfish ways and trust him!

Leadership is about being a servant first.

One voice can change a room.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.