Leadership Quotes

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

I know that millions of Americans from all walks of life agree with me that leadership does not mean putting the ear to the ground to follow public opinion, but to have the vision of what is necessary and the courage to make it possible.

At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.