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Quotes About Leadership

I don't think it's my job, single-handedly, to fix anything. I think it's my job to have a vision and have a plan that is reasonable and workable and get as many people to the table to effect change as possible.
~ Aja Brown
I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.
~ Henry Cisneros
My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me.
~ Justin Trudeau
It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
~ Al Sharpton
If you want to have the best employees, there really needs to be a vision and a mission. Talent looks for a mission. And if you have the best talent, that's the single biggest competitive advantage any company can have.
~ Dan Schulman
I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.
~ Wayne McGregor
I think every leader must possess vision, and they absolutely have to have a heart of service.
~ Aja Brown
A director without a vision is a catastrophe.
~ Alan Arkin
Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first.
~ Andrea Jung
Personal ambition is 'I want to be CEO.' Greater vision ambition is, 'I want to lead this company so that people want to work here.'
~ Srikumar Rao
Women empowerment is, after all, a dream, a vision of Rajivji. It is a genuine vision. We now have so many women in Panchayats.
~ Sonia Gandhi
My responsibility as president is to take care to solve the problems we are facing now and to provide a vision and direction for how our nation should advance in the future.
~ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Exceptional leaders don't impart just vision, rather they cultivate the emergence of vision.
~ Sudha Murty
I think that the CEO is responsible for setting the vision, for articulating the mission, and for building a team of powerful evangelists that share that mission and that passion, because no one person can do anything by themselves.
~ Mindy Grossman
I have not seen a true grounds-up revolution from a bunch of companies getting together. It takes one company to put it together, then people draft off of that, but they don't build it top to bottom with a specific vision.
~ Tony Fadell
I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.
~ Mike Singletary
I have always been up for risks, but only because I had full confidence and faith in the vision of my directors.
~ Abhay Deol
The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.
~ Mitt Romney
Rahul Gandhi himself doesn't have any vision or the political acumen to be able to differentiate between sycophancy and sincere advice.
~ Vivek Agnihotri
Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful, deliberate way.
~ John Sculley
All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.
~ Steve Buscemi
It's one thing to be able to analyze something. It's another to implement it or execute on a vision or even to get a whole bunch of people to rally behind it.
~ Paul DePodesta
I don't think one party has a bad vision over the other party. I have no doubts that every Indian and every Indian political leadership would like to see this country get to a much better level. We would all like to see inclusive growth.
~ Baba Kalyani
I cannot and I will not give up my family. I may not be on the road as often as previous speakers, but I pledge to make up for it with more time communicating our vision, our message.
~ Paul Ryan