Leadership Quotes

"A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position."

- John Maxwell

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."

- Warren Bennis

"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes."

- Peter Drucker

"It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do."

- Steve Jobs

"The supreme quality of leadership is integrity."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Instruction does much, but encouragement, everything."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing."

- Tom Peters

"Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another."

- John C. Maxwell

"Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position."

- Brian Tracy

"Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems."

- Brian Tracy

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist."

- Queen Victoria

"Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing."

- Mary D. Poole

"My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better."

- Steve Jobs

"Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes."

- Margaret Wheatley

"The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests."

- Gail Sheehy

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

"You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization."

- Anita Roddick

"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."

- Jack Welch

"Restore connection is not just for devices, it is for people too. If we cannot disconnect, we cannot lead. Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool."

- Arianna Huffington

"The secret to successful hiring is this: Look for the people who want to change the world."

- Marc Benioff

"What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: Know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed."

- Dave Thomas

"Make your team feel respected, empowered, and genuinely excited about the company’s mission."

- Tim Westergen

"Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell."

- Lisa Stone

"Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors."

- Chris Dixon

"You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new."

- Steve Jobs

"So if you’re firm on what your beliefs are, you get a great foundation to go make a market."

- Ginni Rometty

"It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and it always takes longer. So plan for that."

- Richard Harroch

"Stay self-funded as long as possible."

- Garrett Camp

"Turn a perceived risk into an asset."

- Aaron Patzer

"It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you."

- Jason Cohen