562 Quotes Regarding Leadership


The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader

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

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
Paul Ryan

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.
Lewis H. Lapham

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Tom Landry

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

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.
Deepak Chopra

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
Carter G. Woodson

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
Marco Rubio

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee Iacocca

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
Pat Riley

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Jesse Jackson

Character matters leadership descends from character.
Rush Limbaugh

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
Margaret J. Wheatley

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.
Donald Rumsfeld

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.
Paul Ryan

What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?
Paul Ryan

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.
Sonny Perdue