Leadership Quotes

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

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.

The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them.

Two different styles of leadership. LeBron, very encouraging, bringing everybody along, and Kobe, he's testing you, seeing what you gonna give him. If he gonna get at you, he gonna scream at you, he gonna cuss, he gonna do whatever it is. He had his own way of leading guys as well. It's two different sides. I'm just blessed to see both of them.

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.

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.

I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times, they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

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.

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

Leadership is more about clarity than it is about control.

I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.