Leadership Quotes

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Mary Kay Ash

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Warren Bennis

The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Warren Bennis

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.

Warren Bennis

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.quoted by Rex Seline in Fort Worth, Texas, Star-Telegram

Elaine Agather

Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.

Harold J. Seymore

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Tacitus

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

The cautious seldom err.

Confucius

Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

Madeleine Albright

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

John Updike

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We don't need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.

Mario Diaz-Balart

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

Bob Feller

Leaders grasp nettles.

David Ogilvy

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

Alan Dershowitz

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

Harvey S. Firestone

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

Andrew Greeley