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Quotes About Leadership

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.
~ Jack Welch
Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.
~ Matthew Henry
One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.
~ Ken Blanchard
Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision.
~ Anna Wintour
Christianity is an extreme call to a radical life following a revolutionary leader.
~ Steve Saint
The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.
~ Mitch McConnell
I know what it takes to balance budgets. I have done it my entire life.
~ Mitt Romney
The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.
~ Paul Keating
Just remember that a pat on the back is only 18 inches from a kick in the behind.
~ Rex W. Tillerson
At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism.
~ Margaret Thatcher
I've been dealing with politicians all my life. They are all talk, no action.
~ Donald Trump
The true mark of greatness is not found in what a person does with their own life. It is found in helping others discover that, they too, can become great.
~ John Earl Shoaff
I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver.
~ Muhammad Yunus
If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like.
~ Lee Iacocca
Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.
~ Maggie Smith
Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.
~ Ronald A. Heifetz
I've been a leader practically my whole life. I don't know what it is to follow.
~ Eli Manning
God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.
~ Greg L. Bahnsen
Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.
~ Jacob Burckhardt
Youre supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for Gods sake!
~ Kate Winslet
Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.
~ Kyle Chandler
God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.
~ Max Lucado
We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.
~ Nelson Mandela