Leadership - Quotes & Sayings

The bottom line is, I hear my donors, I hear our base out there, I hear the leadership. And we're taking steps to make sure that we're even more - how shall we say it - fiscally conservative in our spending and certainly making sure the dollars are there when it's time to run our campaigns.

Michael Steele

Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

Madeleine M. Kunin

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

Theodore C. Sorensen

In this nation, leadership is dollars.

Norman Lear

I have always believed women have so many natural leadership qualities. They just need opportunities and access.

Aja Brown

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

Ron Fournier

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Yahoo Serious

I'll practice as good as I can, but I know that I play even better, with the qualities I have - leadership, my ability to make something happen in games, winning.

Tim Tebow

Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.

Don Tapscott

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

Melanne Verveer

The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized.

Thomas E. Mann

Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.

Michael D. Higgins

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

Jim Leach

Working together with our exceptional leadership team, our Ministry of Health was empowered to make smart investments that could unlock our potential by producing long-lasting health and economic benefits for all.

Tedros Adhanom

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

Newt Gingrich

When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

Charles Williams

Exceptional firms have always been good at aligning their mission or purpose with their execution and, as a result, have enjoyed category leadership in sales and profits.

Punit Renjen

Competition-driven innovation and price pressure that commercial practices foster can only make human spaceflight ever more common and U.S. leadership in this domain ever clearer.

Alan Stern

We think our leadership has been too timid to go after corruption, and often times, they bow to the liberal progressive demands of the White House instead of standing up for our values.

John Fleming

I really do believe in succession building and giving people experience for future leadership.

Lois Frankel

Leadership is by far the most important quality when it comes to making a show that's going to last and of superb quality, something classy and fun.

Andre Braugher

The most important ingredient for the success of any company is the quality of its people, starting with its leadership team.

Vivek Ramaswamy

How the hell can I ask people who work for me to travel cheaply if I travel in luxury? It's a question of good leadership.

Ingvar Kamprad

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

Karen Kain

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

John Dingell

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Alan Autry

At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.

Donald Evans

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

Francis Maude

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

Tom Coburn

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

Jackie Stewart

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

Garry Wills

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

Michael Bergdahl

MoMA is one of the world's great cultural institutions with one of the world's premier Boards and Museum leadership. It is my distinct pleasure to work with such a talented and highly qualified group. I salute Bob Menschel for the high bar he has set and follow him in the position of Chairman with all the respect he has earned.

Jerry Speyer

Among the qualities most needed among those who aspire to true leadership in the fostering of peace and goodwill among the nations and in overcoming racial and religious antagonism is the cooperative spirit and objective.

John Mott

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.

Joe Donnelly

My sports were team sports: ice hockey and baseball. The whole team dynamic is similar in business. Leadership is earned - the captain earns that role; it's not because he's the coach's son. These are all things we know, but in today's world, it's not a bad idea to remind ourselves.

James McNerney

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

John Raleigh Mott

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

Vance Packard

I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That's certainly been my leadership style, and I think it's been very successful.

Margaret Hamburg

I am very bullish on India because of its people, its culture, and the leadership. I love the culture and warmth of people.

Tim Cook

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

Condoleezza Rice

I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

Condoleezza Rice

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

Herbert Hoover

In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I think is hard-won. He has to lose friends; he has to risk his life.

Kenneth Branagh

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

We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines.

Maxine Waters

We have to trust the voices of the community to be in leadership and know what we need for our communities.

Tarana Burke

I started doing organizing work as a teenager. I was part of an organization called the 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement at 14.

Tarana Burke

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

Warren Bennis