Best 6910 quotes in «leadership quotes» category

I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.

I wouldn't call myself a leader. I don't want to lead people, I want to tempt them, I want to create a new world for them, just for that very small moment, when they are losing themselves in my music. I want to inspire them

I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product.

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

I would rather keep all the levels lower and stick to the sequester, but there are people in leadership who live outside of reality and want to increase things that Republicans like and pretend Democrats don't exist.

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time.

Jesus Christ was the ultimate influencer. My life has been influenced by Jesus more than anyone else.

Jesus doesn't just want songs. He wants justice for the people on planet Earth.

Keeping ridiculous hours doesn't mean you'll be successful.

Kids on a team are like flowers in a bouquet, there is always one that wants to face a different way than the arranger desires.

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

Knowing how to do a job is the accomplishment of labor - showing others is the accomplishment of the teacher - making sure the work is done by others is the accomplishment of the manager - inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of the leader.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Large companies are not going to disappear. Multinational companies with tens of thousands of employees are not going to disappear. In fact, many of them are getting larger because they can benefit from economies of scale.

Lasting change can occur only when it takes in the spirit of the mind.

Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility.

Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose.

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.

Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.

Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others.

Leaders love progress.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

Leaders never outgrow the need to change.

Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader - the common purpose. The best executives put this common purpose clearly before their group. While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others, the ability to make purpose articulate. And then that common purpose becomes the leader.

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.

Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities.

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

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.

Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.

Leadership is no longer about your position. It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title

Leadership is not about being important, it's about serving something important.

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.