Quotes About Leadership

A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else's.

Heroes are higher than their vulnerability that is why they are heroes.

If your Idea cannot CHANGE the INDUSTRY, you have added no VALUE

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.

Vice president: That's the title given to a corporate manager instead of a raise.

Professional life is like a fire hydrant. You spend all of your time putting out fires and standing your ground against the big dogs.

He that can work is a born king of something.

Most leaders are indispensable but to produce a major social change many ordinary people must also be involved.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.

Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important.

He will never, ever, give up. And, most importantly, he will never, ever, let you down. Donald is, and always has been, an amazing leader. Now, he will go to work for you.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

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

In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45, 000, plus as much as $10, 000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.

I work closely with Hispanic leadership.

I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.

Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon.

I want to work with Peter Robinson as first minister in a positive, constructive way and leave the elections to the electorate.

You have to trust the people who work with you and hire, but also listen to as many smart people as you can.