Quotes for Leadership

Benchmarking is an ongoing exercise in any company that aspires for leadership.

Anand Mahindra

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.

Travis Bradberry

Be the chief but never the lord.

Lao Tzu

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Douglas MacArthur

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt

While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.

John C. Maxwell

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Woodrow Wilson

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

Bryant H. McGill

Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.

Tim Westergen

Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demonstrate leadership in our work and within our lives.

Robin S. Sharma

I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.

Michael D. Higgins

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

Russel Honore

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are 'ridiculously in charge,' then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

Henry Cloud

The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ‘Go!’ -a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’.

E. M. Kelly

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

Ibrahim Babangida

China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.

Chiang Kai-shek

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Steve Case

Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.

George Van Valkenburg