Tony Dungy - The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
Marian Anderson - Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
Russel Honore - Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.
Indra Nooyi - Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
Bill Owens - True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
Harold S. Geneen - Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
Henry Miller - The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
James Cash Penney - Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
Jeffrey Gitomer - Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.
John Naisbitt - Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
J. Donald Walters - Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
Mwai Kibaki - Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
Seth Berkley - Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
Warren Bennis - Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Golda Meir - A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Jeff Bezos - Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
Carlos Ghosn - The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
Chinua Achebe - A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
Tom Landry - Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Norman Schwarzkopf - Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Henry Kissinger - A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
Harold S. Geneen - Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Justin Trudeau - Leadership is inspiring extraordinary people to step up and serve their country.
David Novak - The Vatican's recognition of the State of Israel in 1997 could not have occurred without John Paul's leadership.
Kyrie Irving - One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.
James Buchanan - The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
Simon Sinek - Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.
Lao Tzu - When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves’.
Henry Kissinger - The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Robin S. Sharma - Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.
N. R. Narayana Murthy - Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
Mao Zedong - The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
John Buchan - The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
Harvey S. Firestone - The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
Theodore Roosevelt - People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Bo Bennett - Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
Chip Conley - At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.
Andy Dunn - Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.
Jack Ma - The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
Ralph Nader - The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ken Blanchard - The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
John C. Maxwell - Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
John D. Rockefeller - Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
Jacinda Ardern - Taking on a leadership role doesn't mean that you only have to be personally ambitious.
Myles Munroe - Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.
Ferdinand Marcos - Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Theodore Hesburgh - The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Andy Grove - Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
Ivan Illich - Leadership does not depend on being right.
Tony Blair - The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
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