Leadership Quotes

"If you have to choose between an easy thing and a hard thing, the hard one's usually a lot more fun."

- Samantha Cristoforetti

"If you're lucky enough to be different, don't ever change."

- Khoudia Diop

"Don't follow the crowd. Let the crowd follow you."

- Margaret Thatcher

"I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail."

- Muriel Strode

"Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same."

- Condoleezza Rice

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one who gets the people to do the greatest things."

- Ronald Reagan

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."

- Woodrow Wilson

"It's okay to admit what you don't know. It's okay to ask for help. And it's more than okay to listen to the people you lead–in fact, it's essential."

- Mary Barra

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

- Brian Tracy

"The most effective way to do it is to do it!"

- Amelia Earhart

"One of the criticisms I've faced over the years is that I'm not aggressive enough or assertive enough or maybe somehow, because I'm empathetic, it means I'm weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate and strong."

- Jacinda Ardern

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it."

- David Starr Jordan

"I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership."

- James Humes

"I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through—then follow through."

- Edward Rickenbacker

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Leadership is about the team—the culture they keep and embrace, it’s about empathy for your customers, clients, employees, and the communities where you do business, it’s about doing the right thing for the right reasons, being confident enough to take risks and responsible enough to think of those who your decisions and risks may affect."

- Kat Cole

"The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance."

- Brian Tracy

"The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you."

- Indra Nooyi

"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."

- Vince Lombardi

"What do you really believe makes a difference in the company? For me it’s really clear. It’s about customers and employees. Everything else follows. If you take care of your customers and you have motivated employees, everything else follows."

- Anne M. Mulcahy

"In pursuing your highest ambitions, don’t let your personal safety diminish the safety of your stepsister. In wielding the power that is deservedly yours, don’t permit it to enslave your stepsisters. Let your might and your power emanate from that place in you that is nurturing and caring."

- Toni Morrison

"You never have to ask anyone permission to lead. When you want to lead, you lead."

- Kamala Harris

"My mother did not raise me to ask for permission to lead."

- Ayanna Pressley

"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."

- Indra Nooyi

"In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people."

- Wilma Mankiller

"Lead from the heart, not the head."

- Princess Diana

"Every bowling center should have a house pro."

- Don Johnson

"75 years young and still the guiding star of our family. Happy Birthday, Dad!"