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Quotes About Leadership

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
~ Ann Richards
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
~ Bear Grylls
The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.
~ Brenda Barnes
Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.
~ Harrison Salisbury
Ask advice of him who governs himself well.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Bad friends could ruin your whole life. Be wise when it comes to choosing your friends. You set the standard. You be the one who stands strong. Don't be a follower.
~ Robin Jones Gunn
And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.
~ Steve Jobs
In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.
~ Abraham Lincoln
In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
~ Adam Weishaupt
This is a good life lesson: getting the right people into your system is the most important thing you can do.
~ Charlie Munger
Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers
~ Tony Robbins
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
~ Eric Sevareid
Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.
~ Lee Bolman
I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.
~ Martha Stewart
We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.
~ Muhammad Yunus
I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.
~ Nancy Reagan
It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.
~ Richard Donner
In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life
~ James C. Collins
I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.
~ W.H. Auden
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.
~ Alan Keyes
In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life ... It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.
~ J. C. Watts