Leadership Quotes

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

There is no force in the world that can block the powerful march of our army and people, who are holding high the banner of the suns of great Comrade Kim Il Sung and great Comrade Kim Jong Il and continuing to advance under the leadership of the party and with strong faith in sure victory.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Education is the mother of leadership.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career - novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.