Quotes on Leadership

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission

You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

It's alright to be Goliath but always act like David.

In the end, North Korea's conduct may change only when its leadership does.

Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.

Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

People finally understood that the role of the social-democratic party rests on its conscious leadership of the mass struggle against the existing society, a struggle that must reckon with the vital, necessary conditions of capitalist society.

In the old world of business, there was often just one seat at the leadership table for women, two at best. That meant that only so many women could advance. But in a world where women recognize the power that they own - and where technology can upend the traditional rules of engagement - one woman winning doesn't mean another loses.

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.