Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

When placed in command, take charge.

In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.

Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.

One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

My number one philosophy for leadership is leadership by example. If you are not willing to do it yourself, how can you show others how to do it?

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions. I am wealthy in that the people of Russia have twice entrusted me with the leadership of a great nation such as Russia - I believe that is my greatest wealth.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.

Clarity affords focus.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?'

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

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.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

My senior leadership team is half people who have been at GM for a long period of time like me, and others who have joined the company within the last five years from different industries, experiences, and countries. You have a better picture of the world. The diversity of thought is where you can make better business decisions.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

Leadership is a matter of how to be - not how to do it.

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.

The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.

At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess, is integrity.

With the election of Trump, America's soft power has taken a big hit. The United States has moved from a position of leadership in the creation of a rules-based international system to a position of leadership in its destruction and the creation of a regime of global protectionism. The damage will be long-lasting.

There is no finish line to leadership.

The principal challenge we face is to go up the value- and domain-skill chain and build a strong consultancy front end and, also, to globalize our leadership much more.

Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership - it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Leadership is... to make sure you never limit the idea or opportunity.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

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.

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.

Leadership is about being a servant first.