Leadership Quotes

"It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do."

- Sheryl Sandberg

""Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.""

- Madeleine Albright

""Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.""

- Barack Obama

"To his very last days, dad’s life was instructive. As he aged, he taught us how to grow old with dignity, humor, and kindness—and, when the Good Lord finally called, how to meet Him with courage and with joy in the promise of what lies ahead."

- President George W. Bush

"A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example."

- Joe DiMaggio

"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided."

- Casey Stengel

"Be a voice, not an echo."

- Albert Einstein

"All musicians are potential band leaders."

- Thelonious Monk

"The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity."

- Peter Drucker

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader."

- John Quincy Adams

"Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders."

- Tom Peters

"I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back."

- Maya Angelou

"If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them."

- Jeff Brooks

"We need to value donors as much as we need value from them."

- Reinier Spruit

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

""If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.""

- Jeff Brooks

""We need to value donors as much as we need value from them.""

- Reinier Spruit

""Donors don’t give to institutions. They invest in ideas and people in whom they believe.""

- G.T. Smith

""As you go through your presentation, ask questions that stimulate dialogue. Monologues work for Jay Leno, but they aren’t appropriate in fundraising appeals.""

- Scott Morton

""Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy objective, any more than as though you were giving him an opportunity to participate in high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his as the duty of asking yours. Whether or not he should give to that particular enterprise, and if so, how much, it is for him alone to decide.""

- John D. Rockefeller

""Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then… do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.""

- Seth Godin

"But real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing."

- Madeleine Albright

"Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment."

- Jim Collins and Jerry Porra

"If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."

- Ken Blanchard

"The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success."

- James Cash Penney

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."

- Stephen Covey

"Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others."

- Jon Gordon

"Let us all be the leaders we wish we had."

- Simon Sinek

"Everyone can be great because everyone can serve."