Leadership Quotes

You Either Trust Someone or You Don’t

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Abdication Isn’t Empowerment

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Finish Well, Anyone Can Start Well

~ Miles Anthony Smith

If Everything’s a Rush, Nothing Is

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Seek the Blame, Give Away the Fame

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Macromanage, Not Micromanage

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Overoptimism Is More Dangerous Than Overpessimism

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Don’t Give Someone Responsibility without Requisite Authority

~ Miles Anthony Smith

One of the greatest responsibilities of an organization’s leadership is to communicate with unwavering clarity the values on which the organization has been built.

~ Vern Dosch

It is the leader’s job to model and enforce the values and behaviors that make up the company culture. “Model” the behaviors is key. “Do as I say” only breeds contempt from others.

~ Beth Ramsay

There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

Leaders respond & change, the rest quit and blame.

~ Orrin Woodward

Leadership is service, not position.

~ Tim Fargo

You reveal your character by what you do with what you have.

~ Ge Paulus

When leaders reframe customers into guests, and results into experiences, profits escalate.

~ Eric Schiffer

EYou reveal your character by what you do with what you have.

~ Ge Paulus

Those who serve deserve.

~ Orrin Woodward

Leadership is a Requirement for Survival and a Prerequisite for Success.

~ Noel Dejesus

Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.

~ Tom Clancy

I pride myself in being a technology innovator, so our specialty at Veeam is our laser-focused commitment to R&D, but you cannot build solid solutions without knowing what the goals are for your customers.

~ Ratmir Timashev

No matter how fast weapons and technology evolve in the 21st century, one thing remains constant is that war is a human endeavor, a grueling contest between two learning and adaptive forces. Victory, therefore rests on how smart, how tough, and how dedicated our boots on the ground.

~ Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono

It is no longer just engineers who dominate our technology leadership, because it is no longer the case that computers are so mysterious that only engineers can understand what they are capable of. There is an industry-wide shift toward more product thinking in leadership--leaders who understand the social and cultural contexts in which our technologies are deployed.Products must appeal to human beings, and a rigorously cultivated humanistic sensibility is a valued asset for this challenge. That is perhaps why a technology leader of the highest status--Steve Jobs--recently credited an appreciation for the liberal arts as key to his company's tremendous success with their various i-gadgets.

~ Damon Horowitz

He seemed touched by a larger spirit, his course guided by something beyond him, so talented, so able, so good-natured that he did not even inspire envy in a city rich with envy.

~ David Halberstam

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on

~ Abraham Lincoln

Vision is capturing God's assignment

~ Gary Rohrmayer

Workers who can consistently decide with clarity and ease which tasks are most important when under pressure are the most prized in every organization. Highly focused in pressure-cooker situations, they rise to meet the challenges of an opportunity-saturated workplace that demands tough calls at every step.

~ Julie Morgenstern

One of the things I’ve learned about vision is people will grab it mentally or, have a crab mentality.

~ Onyi Anyado

Your comfort zone is not that comfortable.

~ Onyi Anyado

Writing and achieving your goals is not failure, not having a goal to write in the first place is the start of failure.

~ Onyi Anyado

When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.

~ Paul Gibbons

Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.

~ Todd Stocker

A visionary is a leader of excellence who sees what others do not see, who achieves for now and plans for the future, who positively impacts different generations and raises up other visionaries.

~ Onyi Anyado

People will follow someone as a leader, who has vision and purpose; often that leader doesn’t wear a title.

~ Beth Ramsay

Gamers can feel when developers are passionate about their games. They can smell it like a dog smells fear. Don't be afraid to hold onto your unique vision: just be aware that it may not turn out exactly how you envisioned.

~ Scott Rogers

There is no seamen in the world who prefers a slow ship to a fast one. The painters painted better, the cooks took a little more time with the meals, and the technicians tightened the bolts just a little more. Their ship was no longer a cripple, and pride broke out in the crew like a rainbow after a summer shower.

~ Tom Clancy

Long-term solutions are more attractive and cause much less controversy than short-term solutions, which will affect people who are still alive and voting.

~ George Friedman

He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.

~ Thomas E. Mann

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.

~ Theodore Hesburgh

Grounded leaders are present for others, operate with fortitude, and influence with the full impact of their vision and strength.

~ Catherine Robinson-Walker

Vision without implementation is counterproductive.

~ Douglas B. Reeves