Quotes on Leadership

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

Leaders are those who empower others.

Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him. Significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.

I didn't follow the policies of those already in the business. If I had, I would never have made a go of it. Instead, I started out with the determination to make a better nickel chocolate bar than any of my competitors made, and I did so.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

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.

Empathy is about standing in someone else's shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

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.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers.

Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.

The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.