Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 14

Empower your leadership journey with quotes from successful leaders. Gain insights to lead effectively and inspire others. Page 14 provides more leadership quotes.

Image of Maxine Waters
We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines.
- Maxine Waters
Collection: Leadership
Image of Jim Cooper
I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.
- Jim Cooper
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Image of Arthur Scargill
The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.
- Arthur Scargill
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Image of Aaron Rodgers
I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
- Aaron Rodgers
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Image of Atifete Jahjaga
We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.
- Atifete Jahjaga
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Image of Paul Keating
The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.
- Paul Keating
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Image of Paul Hawken
We're trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. That's who we look to for leadership and change, for transformation. We're awaiting the next J.F.K., the next Martin Luther King, the next Gandhi, the next Nelson Mandela.
- Paul Hawken
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Image of Lynn Good
Leadership is a journey - you never arrive.
- Lynn Good
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Image of Anna Deavere Smith
I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.
- Anna Deavere Smith
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Image of Jeffrey Gitomer
Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.
- Jeffrey Gitomer
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Image of Mitt Romney
My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.
- Mitt Romney
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Image of Anita Borg
Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
- Anita Borg
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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
- Barack Obama
Collection: Leadership
Image of Mark Teixeira
As much as you don't like disciplining your kids, you have to sometimes. Kids want that structure, that leadership, that guidance. I think that's what I try to give my children.
- Mark Teixeira
Collection: Leadership
Image of Ibrahim Babangida
To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.
- Ibrahim Babangida
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Image of Jesse Jackson
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
- Jesse Jackson
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Image of W. Averell Harriman
Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
- W. Averell Harriman
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Image of Louis Farrakhan
Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.
- Louis Farrakhan
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Image of George Soros
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
- George Soros
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Image of Chiang Kai-shek
Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to secure freedom and equality of status for China among the nations of the world.
- Chiang Kai-shek
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Image of Herbert Hoover
One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.
- Herbert Hoover
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Image of Irene Rosenfeld
Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
- Irene Rosenfeld
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Putin's Russia is our adversary and moral opposite. It is committed to the destruction of the post-war, rule-based world order built on American leadership and the primacy of our political and economic values.
- John McCain
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Image of Joe Kaeser
Often, sustainability is discussed only in the context of energy. Energy sustainability is essential - but the word has a much broader meaning. It means long-term thinking about how we manage our businesses, invest in social spending, and plan for the future. This requires vision and leadership, and it requires citizen engagement.
- Joe Kaeser
Collection: Leadership
Image of Frances Hesselbein
Leadership is a matter of how to be - not how to do it.
- Frances Hesselbein
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Image of Satpal Maharaj
The Congress leadership always denied responsibilities to me both within the government and within the party organisation... They would always tell me my image as a Hindu leader was a constraint on my capacity as a political leader.
- Satpal Maharaj
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Image of W. E. B. Du Bois
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
- W. E. B. Du Bois
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Image of Jocko Willink
Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you're going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they're not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals.
- Jocko Willink
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Image of Andy Stanley
Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.
- Andy Stanley
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Image of Henry Cloud
What happens with a lot of leaders is that their leadership style is like ADD; they are all over the place with different ideas. They could be driving one idea forward but then move on to something else too soon.
- Henry Cloud
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Image of Bill Owens
Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.
- Bill Owens
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Image of Aaron Rodgers
I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, who you're interacting with, making guys feel like you're interested in what they're doing. If it's authentic, then it's going to be an easy conversation and easy hangout time.
- Aaron Rodgers
Collection: Leadership
Image of Bob Ehrlich
Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
- Bob Ehrlich
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Image of Buzz Aldrin
Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership, then we'll be using Chinese capability to inspire Americans.
- Buzz Aldrin
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Image of Norman Schwarzkopf
I've got to tell you what, the soldier doesn't fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his own whim. That's not what military leadership is all about.
- Norman Schwarzkopf
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Image of Yitzhak Shamir
I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
- Yitzhak Shamir
Collection: Leadership
Image of Travis Bradberry
Few things kill likeability as quickly as arrogance. Likable leaders don't act as though they're better than you because they don't think that they're better than you. Rather than being a source of prestige, they see their leadership position as bringing them additional accountability for serving those who follow them.
- Travis Bradberry
Collection: Leadership
Image of Bob Iger
I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.
- Bob Iger
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Image of Chip Conley
When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.
- Chip Conley
Collection: Leadership
Image of George W. Bush
I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
- George W. Bush
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Image of James Humes
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
- James Humes
Collection: Leadership
Image of Henry Cloud
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.
- Henry Cloud
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Image of Robert Teeter
Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.
- Robert Teeter
Collection: Leadership
Image of John W. Rogers, Jr.
My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible.
- John W. Rogers, Jr.
Collection: Leadership
Image of Harvey Mackay
Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.
- Harvey Mackay
Collection: Leadership
Image of Sebastian Coe
Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.
- Sebastian Coe
Collection: Leadership
Image of Bill Pascrell
House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?
- Bill Pascrell
Collection: Leadership
Image of Marcel Desailly
Playing football helped me to gain self-discipline, confidence, negotiation skills, teamwork and leadership.
- Marcel Desailly
Collection: Leadership
Image of Madeleine M. Kunin
There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
- Madeleine M. Kunin
Collection: Leadership