2. Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority. - Tom Hopkins
3. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better. - Bill Bradley
4. When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier. - Roy E. Disney
5. To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. - Aristotle Onassis
6. Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. - E. Joseph Cossman
7. Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. - E. Joseph Cossman
8. 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. - Harvey S. Firestone
9. Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders. - Steve Ballmer
10. Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. - Harold S. Geneen
11. Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. - Harold S. Geneen
12. Strong convictions precede great actions. - James Freeman Clarke
13. The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. - Ken Olsen
14. Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. - Barbara Sher
15. The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act. - Barbara Sher
16. You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart. - An Wang
17. One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others. - Stefan Zweig
18. You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right. - Phil Crosby
19. Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference. - Nolan Bushnell
20. Leadership does not depend on being right. - Ivan Illich
21. To succeed, one must be creative and persistent. - John H. Johnson
22. It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. - Daniel Defoe
23. It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime. - Michael Eisner
24. Clarity affords focus. - Thomas Leonard
25. You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power. - Major Owens
26. The sharp employ the sharp. - Douglas William Jerrold
27. There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience. - Chuck Tanner
28. Get the best people and train them well. - Scott McNealy
29. The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it. - Cyril Falls
30. The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear. - Kobe Bryant
31. 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. - Kim Jong-un
32. We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger. - Bernie Sanders
33. I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful. - John Wooden
34. 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. - Harry S Truman
35. I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together. - George W. Bush
36. The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better. - Tony Dungy
37. 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. - Ben Carson
38. One of the joys of working with boys is that you get your pay as you go along. You can observe the results of your leadership daily... Such satisfaction cannot be purchased at any price; it must be earned. - Ezra Taft Benson
39. In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments. - Tulsi Gabbard
40. Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire teammates and customers. - Robin S. Sharma
41. As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother. - Benazir Bhutto
42. The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful. - Jon Taffer
43. Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership. - Bill Owens
44. The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes
45. Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership. - James Humes
46. Donald Trump's leadership, decision-making and problem solving will restore America's role as the undeniable and unquestioned world leader. - Michael T. Flynn
47. Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger. - Kgalema Motlanthe
48. The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil. - Ronald Reagan
49. Any objective observer will conclude that - based on her ideas and her leadership - Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States. - Bernie Sanders
50. I have the right temperament. I have the right leadership. I've built an incredible company. I went to a great school. I came out - I built an incredible company. I wrote the number one selling business book of all time: 'Trump: The Art of the Deal.' - Donald Trump
51. We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen. - Barack Obama
52. The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt. - Barack Obama
53. In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama
54. We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now. - Barack Obama
55. Everything rises and falls on leadership. - John C. Maxwell
56. 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. - John C. Maxwell
57. Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure. - John C. Maxwell
58. No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. - Peter Drucker
59. A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. - Jim Rohn
60. The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
61. You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
62. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. - Stephen Covey
63. Leadership is a choice, not a position. - Stephen Covey
64. While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago. - Rahm Emanuel
65. Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care. - Rahm Emanuel
66. Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk? - Rahm Emanuel
67. The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama. - Rahm Emanuel
68. Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago. - Rahm Emanuel
69. The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq. - Noam Chomsky
70. 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. - Shirley Chisholm
71. When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the pressure increases each day, there is a deep need for spiritual advice. Without it, we see families crumble, leadership weaken, and hard workers grow tired. - Cesar Chavez
72. We in the United States believe in the protection of minorities; we recognize the contributions that they can make and the leadership that they can provide; and we do not believe that any people - whether majority or minority, or individual human beings - are 'expendable' in the cause of theory or of policy. - Robert Kennedy
73. In government, our chief executives have been lawyers. The great majority of our cabinets and congresses are and have been men trained in the law. They have provided the leadership and the statecraft and the store of strength when it was needed. - Robert Kennedy
74. From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership? - W. E. B. Du Bois
75. In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln. - W. E. B. Du Bois
76. Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
77. For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
78. When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize. - Joyce Meyer
79. Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital. - Jeff Bezos
80. Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love. - Henri Nouwen
81. The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something. - John Lewis
82. I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them. - Sam Walton
83. I've been a Democrat, I've been a Republican, and I eventually became an independent because I don't believe either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership. - Michael Bloomberg
84. The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. - Mao Zedong
85. What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership. - Bob Iger
86. I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately. - Bob Iger
87. Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men. - Gloria Steinem
88. I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
89. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. - Norman Schwarzkopf
90. 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. - Norman Schwarzkopf
91. I've got to tell you what, the soldier doesn't fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his own whim. That's not what military leadership is all about. - Norman Schwarzkopf
92. Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action. - Simon Sinek
93. Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating. - Simon Sinek
94. One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process. - Simon Sinek
95. Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation. - Simon Sinek
96. The cost of leadership is self-interest. - Simon Sinek
97. I helped to restore America's leadership. - Hillary Clinton
98. America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship. - Hillary Clinton
99. Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today. - Angela Davis
100. You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now. - Angela Davis
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