Leadership Quotes
Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making machines whose only reason for existing is to satisfy escalating expectation for immediate gain.
-- Leadership Quotes by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.
-- Leadership Quotes by Peter Drucker
Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
-- Leadership Quotes by Peter Drucker
Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.
-- Leadership Quotes by Peter Drucker
We call ourselves a “capacity building” organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don’t think I have signed a check for the company.
-- Leadership Quotes by Talal Abu-Ghazaleh -
Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It's important that they are free to develop ideas. And rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It's not a big investment.
-- Leadership Quotes by Bernard Arnault
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.
-- Leadership Quotes by Mary Kay Ash
It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.
-- Leadership Quotes by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
-- Leadership Quotes by Tony Blair
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
-- Leadership Quotes by Tony Blair
In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people.. they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
-- Leadership Quotes by Ken Blanchard
Too many leaders act as if the sheep.. their people.. are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
-- Leadership Quotes by Ken Blanchard
My job is a job to make decisions. I'm a decision.. if the job description were, what do you do.. it's decision maker.
-- Leadership Quotes by George Bush
As Americans, we want peace.. we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.
-- Leadership Quotes by George Bush
You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier.. So long as I'm the dictator.
-- Leadership Quotes by George Bush
Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions.. whether in the corporate or social sectors.. to advance their own interests.
-- Leadership Quotes by Jim Collins
If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth century was a century of greatness, but we face the very real prospect that the next century will see very few enduring great institutions.
-- Leadership Quotes by Jim Collins
