Leaders Quotes

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.

The real leaders of tomorrow are already working on the next big idea, the one that will drive growth into future. They're already far beyond the ideas that created today's results.

Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.

Political leaders normally act by making convincing speeches.

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

Strong leaders cannot tolerate weak leaders above them.

What you can't enforce, do not command.

One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.

The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.

I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.

All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.

Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.

As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example.

Leaders grasp nettles.

Strong leaders encourage you to do things for your own benefit, not just theirs.

You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems.

I did not always achieve what I set out to do. Nevertheless, my personal example certainly suggests that hands-on experience can be helpful to future leaders.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.

Strong leaders are harassed, imprisoned or assassinated, which are great deterrents if you want to silence a firebrand and suppress a revolt.

Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people at large as much as for their future leaders.

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one.

Too many kings can ruin an army

Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

Sometimes it seems like most people are being pulled into a negative energy, but then you meet strong individuals or strong leaders and they are free from it.

The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.

People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.

The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so on.

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it should be fun.

Political leaders need to formulate long-term EU goals that show: Yes, we want to stay together.