Leadership Quotes

If you put your heart into everything you do, you will recreate yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Leaders find a need and quickly respond to the need.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The art of effective leadership is about navigating the dynamics of growth and success… holding a vision and leading a team, but arriving at the same time.

~ Steve Maraboli

Stagnancy will suffocate a business… Leadership must be dynamic and evolving to ensure successful growth, enhancement, and longevity.

~ Steve Maraboli

With automobile accidents, mechanical failure is seldom the cause; and most often, operator error. I find the same to be true with corporate failings…. the people are rarely the issue… the shortcoming is most often found in the leadership.

~ Steve Maraboli

Don’t just timidly swing at the problems in your life, swing hard enough to knock them out! Small efforts produce small results, big efforts produce big results!

~ Dewayne Owens

Our deeds and actions can change the heart of men.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

John’s standard maneuver to ask someone to help him, especially in a moment of crisis

~ William R. Forstchen

We can serve humanity with passionate commitment to our divine purpose.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.

~ Robert A. Caro

Life is meant to be shared and fully lived.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Reliance in its most basic, daily, form is being part of a group that lives by a pact: To always have each other’s backs — no matter what — so that everyone comes out future strong.

~ Bill Jensen

A leader only follows a better leader than himself.

~ Md. Muhtashimur Rahman

Reliance in its purest, highest, form is a code to live by: That every life matters. Every future matters. Taking care of each other matters. And our shared purpose is to create amazing futures for our children’s children.

~ Bill Jensen

Reliance is the ultimate measure of a team’s or organization’s culture. It’s not 'Would I recommend a friend to work here?' It’s 'Would this group of people put their ass on the line for me?' And 'Would I do the same for them?

~ Bill Jensen

If you want a strong future: Becoming secure with insecurity is the best security you can have.

~ Bill Jensen

If you want to lead others into a strong future: You need to be keenly aware of how your own inner truths — biases, fears, courage, values and dreams — do or do not impact the daily work of others.

~ Bill Jensen

If you want a strong future: You need to get past the stories that you have told yourself and others. You need to hear the heartbeatthat’s the real you.

~ Bill Jensen

Me comes before we. You need to become future strong before you can help others do the same.

~ Bill Jensen

Your career will include thousands of opportunities to transform yourself. Many will disrupt all that you have built. Each is an opportunity to choose to be vulnerable, to let go, to be reborn.

~ Bill Jensen

All the statistics about how many jobs you’ll have over your lifetime… (15-20) and how many companies you’ll work for… while true, completely miss the point! From now on, treat those numbers as red herrings — crucial only to HR directors, leaders and companies who are stuck in the past. The Rule of Disruptive Personal Transformation: Every year, you will experience about 100 significant transformative moments. Most will be thrust upon you by the disruptive churn of our times.Driven, focused people know which 3—5 to seize each year as crucial to their future.

~ Bill Jensen

Future strong individuals will not take on personal sacrifices, hardships and corporate crap that sidetrack them from their dreams and goals.

~ Bill Jensen

To be future strong, you will face difficult hardships. Usually, there is no absolutely right or absolutely wrong choice. The key is to be intentional: Choosing the best hardships for your best future.

~ Bill Jensen

People should not have to sacrifice so much of their personal lives, hopes, dreams and goals just to keep up with corporate pressured morebetterfaster. And tomorrow’s workforce won’t.

~ Bill Jensen

Future strong cultures and relationships are built upon intense 'I have your back' bonds.

~ Bill Jensen

Future Strong leaders are driven by a core question: What do I want my legacy to be? That requires a lot of searching one’s inner truths, and being brutally honest about how that compares to one’s daily actions.

~ Bill Jensen

Working for a company must help individuals achieve their dreams and goals more efficiently and effectively than they could achieve them elsewhere.

~ Bill Jensen

Calling upon our crucible moments allows us to transcend our own limitations. Those moments create completely new possibilities within each of us.

~ Bill Jensen

You talk to leadership in China, and THEY are all the engineers. They get what is going on immediately. The Americans don't because they're all lawyers.

~ John Doerr

Leadership is more about purpose than it is about position.

~ Michele Jennae

Tomorrow’s workforce is flopping the relationship lens: They see companies as vehicles to achieve their goals and dreams — vehicles that can amplify their passions, achievements and community relationships beyond what they could have done on their own or elsewhere. Companies that they will join are seen as communities that explore and resource and fund making a difference in the world in ways that align with their personal approach and values.

~ Bill Jensen

He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.

~ Stephen L. Carter

They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.

~ Stephen L. Carter

In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.

~ Stephen L. Carter

Future strong is adventurous self-mastery. Unlocking your future by running toward the unknown, with the wondrous soul of a child and the drive of a force that will not be stopped.

~ Bill Jensen

All Prophets were leaders, should all leaders be Prophets?

~ Leader

You need to have the means to impose yourself

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Leadership is a mindset in which one is unapologetically driven towards their goals and in behaving accordingly, inspires those around them to join in.

~ Steve Maraboli

Leadership is the bridge of integrity that connects goals, desires, and actions.

~ Steve Maraboli