Leadership Quotes
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.
Jennifer Granholm
A policy of knowing your replacement is one of the best ways to drive a growth culture. It anticipates and eliminates the most harmful politics in leadership for an expanding company and instantly sets the right tone for a high-talent, growth-mindset executive team.
Joe Lonsdale
Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure.
Bernard L. Schwartz
I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee Iacocca
When I was commander of Central Command, obviously we were very concerned about the developments in Yemen, the developments in Somalia and elsewhere, in Africa and so forth. But the al Qaeda senior leadership is under unprecedented pressure.
David Petraeus
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
John Buchan
We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.
Peter Chernin
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
Dee Dee Myers
The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama who is prepared to take a conciliatory and concessive attitude towards America's decline and that it has a Chinese leadership which has been extremely cautious about expressing an opinion, let alone flexing its muscles.
Martin Jacques
The problem is that, over time, big pieces of business that have to get done without leadership from Washington, don't get done.
Barack Obama
Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.
S. M. Stirling
As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.
Elliott Abrams
