Quotes on Leadership

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset.

Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization's mission.

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

To have a successful career, you have to approach it as an entrepreneur, even if you are working for someone else. Your career is your own private business. You have to market yourself and your abilities and knowledge just as you would a product or service.

Find the right people, not the best people.

Don't even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.

The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. They reveal the kinship between other facts, long known, but wrongly believed to be strangers to one another.

For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.