Quotes About Leadership

The most important thing I've learned since becoming CEO is context. It's how your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it.

But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership.

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.

Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.

Learn to obey before you command.

We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.

If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.

All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. I learn as much as I can, from as many as I can, as often as I can.

People don't always have the vision, and the secret for the person with the vision is to stand up. It takes a lot of courage.

Learning to be an effective leader is no different than learning to be an effective person. And that's the hard part

I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now and previously.

The best people know that there are two phases in every crisis: the one where you manage it and the other where you learn from it. To succeed you have to do both

If you play the game and you think about coaching, you should know it's about listening to people and learning.

There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them, and that's not training them and keeping them

Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.

To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself?

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.

A coach who is not teaching leads to the worst thing in a program -- players not learning.

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

The Lord didn't make Lehi a mere spectator, watching and learning from afar. Instead, the Lord taught his prophet by taking him out of the bleachers and placing him right in the middle of the action.

Learning to receive feedback from each other is what leadership is all about.

Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"