Quotes About Leadership

Lessons in Leadership: My Rules to Live By© • Be true to yourself • Do the right thing • Remember that actions speak louder than words • Put first things first • Just do it

The most charismatic leaders don't seem to be as concerned with the material they're presenting as they are with getting to know their audiences.

Changing the conversation in the room was more important than playing it safe.

envisioning a positive outcome has helped her speak with presence. For her first staff meeting at her former position as publisher of People en Español, Jackie envisioned herself passionately speaking to the group. An image of a successful meeting primed her to make it happen.

pretense of perfection can kill your enthusiasm as well as your ability to move forward. Don't indulge it. Mistakes are part of the growing process. Some of the greatest innovations have come as a result of things going awry. A senior leader once told me that it's okay to make mistakes as long as you don't make the same mistake twice.

MYTH It's not possible to learn how to be a dynamic leader. TRUTH Leadership presence can be cultivated and is available to me.

Leading with presence is all about the signals you send out. It is how you portray yourself—through your words, actions, and appearance—as someone whom others trust and want to follow.

Leading with presence involves being authentic, owning our strengths as well as our weaknesses, and speaking up on issues with integrity and passion.

Confidence spark Take inventory of your strengths—actually make a list of them. Call to mind your current supervisor and previous managers—what else would they say about your strengths? Take this all in.

Women with power and authority tend to intimidate people far more than men with the same qualities, particularly if those women deserve the position they have achieved.

Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.

For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to.

teams facing significant performance pressure tend to default to high-status members at the expense of the most knowledgeable of the team members.

when teams face significant performance pressure, they tend to defer to high-status members, at the expense of using expert team members.

The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership – who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.

Companies with great leadership are simply more investable.

The wisest fool in Christendom [James I of England].

I know not the way He leads me, but well do I know my Guide.

You teach a little by what you say. You teach most by what you are.

Some people grow under responsibility; others swell.

Your playing small does not serve the world," said Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech. "Who are you not to be great?

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string when one slips off, all the rest follow.

A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

Who will free me from this turbulent priest?