Leadership Quotes

I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!

~ Bill Cosby

Many people read History books but it takes just a few people to LEAD the cause that will shape the course of HISTORY.

~ Fela Durotoye

Senior pastors cannot be those who think they can do everything but are willing to let a few people help them. Rather, they are those who know they can’t do everything, don’t want to do everything, and are not willing to do everything; they welcome others to come along-side with their gifts in order to form a powerful team for Christ.

~ Sue Mallory

I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

I could impart excitement, but not urgency. – Francis Chen

~ David Platt

Pique or policy. We would never know.

~ Roger Kahn

Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted to howl in rage. It is not my place to do so. My job is to try to dissect the event, place it in context and try to understand what has happened and why. From that, after the rage cools, plans for action can be made. Rage has its place, but actions must be taken with discipline and thought.

~ George Friedman

While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and he must manage them and lead them, but he must not succumb to personal feelings. His job is to maintain a ruthless sense of proportion while keeping the coldness of his calculation to himself.

~ George Friedman

Presidents and other politicians manage the appearance of things, largely by manipulating the air and hope.

~ George Friedman

Tunney has all the makings of a hero – he was clean living, intelligent, polite, reasonably good-looking – but, like Lou Gehrig, he lacked the chemistry that stirred affection.

~ Bill Bryson

Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist.

~ William Allen White

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

~ Ron Suskind

Serving my generation with excellence will in turn mean my generation can lead, with excellence.

~ Onyi Anyado

Entrepreneur, don't just read history, write it so people can see the future in the present.

~ Onyi Anyado

Entrepreneur, either your brand is distinct or your brand is distant.

~ Onyi Anyado

A struggle is fatally injured not so much by the stumbles of its leaders as by their mumbles

~ Agona Apell

Your distinction shouldn't be measured by your duration but rather, your donation.

~ Onyi Anyado

Yes, content is king but excellence is his queen. ~ Onyi Anyado.

~ Onyi Anyado

Real leadership is not seeking the applause from followers, real leadership is applauding the followers who become leaders.

~ Onyi Anyado

You have to grab the goal, visualise your vision, excel in excellence and then become distinct in distinction.

~ Onyi Anyado

The call of distinction cannot be heard by the average, neither can the vision of distinction be seen by the eyes of the mediocre.

~ Onyi Anyado

When you walk in distinction, you don’t compete with anyone but competition wants to compete with you.

~ Onyi Anyado

Do you know invisible determination and effort will always accomplish visible distinction and excellence?

~ Onyi Anyado

Entrepreneur, you are your brand. Your website, business card, speech and how you walk and talk is your brand.

~ Onyi Anyado

Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

~ Max Mckeown

Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team.

~ Cheryl A. Bachelder

At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

~ Noel Dejesus

At the end of the day let there be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

~ Noel Dejesus

You want to know the great thing about today, it doesn't care about what you did or didn't do yesterday or what you're going to do tomorrow, it only cares about what you do right now.

~ Noel Dejesus

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.

~ George Friedman

Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of another person, even though these be of an altogether spiritual nature, is worldly and has no place in the Christian community; indeed, it poisons the Christianity community.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

~ George Friedman

Groves, with his eye for sizing up people who could get things done, saw the deep ambition Oppenheimer covered with his surface charm.

~ Garry Wills

The day you wake up thinking the world is yours is the day you start living.

~ Samer Chidiac

Branding is not just a product, it's also a way of life, an idea, branding is actually leadership.

~ Onyi Anyado

Africa is crying out for entrepreneurial leaders & for leaders who are entrepreneurial.

~ Onyi Anyado

Not having a recognised brand & trying to stand out in the market is like going to the market without any goods.

~ Onyi Anyado

When you walk in silence your excellence will always speak for you.

~ Onyi Anyado

Entrepreneur, your either raising the bar of excellence or your exhaling at the bar which is expensive.

~ Onyi Anyado

You will never see an eagle of distinction flying low with pigeons of mediocrity.

~ Onyi Anyado