Quotes on Leadership

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

I think that's what's thrilling about leadership - when you're holding onto literally the worst possible hand on the planet and you know you're still going to win. How are you still going to win? Because that's when the character of the company really comes out.

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

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Leadership is not a contest of likeability. Leadership often boils down to making the tougher choices. You are not in a popularity contest.

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the truth." The point is clear: If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the king acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.