Leadership Quotes - Page 3

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

The cost of leadership is self-interest.

It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

I fell in love with the topic of leadership. For three decades, that has been a major focus of my hands-on work: listening to and working with leaders, their teams and their organizations.

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

The State House is notorious for its crazy, unpredictable work hours - it's a big reason why women are deterred from entering the legislature at all levels, and especially in leadership.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible.

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.

Too many women don't see themselves in senior leadership and so don't push themselves to advance their careers as their male peer group do.

Leadership is something I was born with.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

Anytime Tom Watson is on your team, you've won. His passion, professionalism, attention to detail, and leadership are unparalleled.

I am humbled, gratified and overjoyed at the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in commemoration of my father's leadership. It of course means a lot to our family. But more important, it is a great step forward for America.

People look for their leadership to lead.

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.