If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
~ William James
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
Leadership is... to make sure you never limit the idea or opportunity.
~ Kevin Plank
Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
~ Douglas Brinkley
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
~ Angela Davis
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
~ Jim Yong Kim
I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
~ Vernon Jordan
Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.
~ Jennifer Granholm
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
My number one philosophy for leadership is leadership by example. If you are not willing to do it yourself, how can you show others how to do it?
~ Linda Mcmahon
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
~ Aristotle Onassis
If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
~ T. Boone Pickens
In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are 'ridiculously in charge,' then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.
~ Henry Cloud
I could always score goals. I loved that feeling of having your team look to you, that feeling of leadership.
~ Alex Morgan
You're born with some things inside you that will allow you to lead, but I think you have to take the bull by the horns. You have to want that leadership position, and then there are things you can do to develop that.
~ Tony Dungy
You have to keep on disrupting. If you let up the pressure, then al-Qaeda senior leadership will come back.
~ David Petraeus
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
~ Thomas Fuller
You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.
~ Steve Wynn
If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state.
~ Monica Crowley
Leadership is a journey - you never arrive.
~ Lynn Good
Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.
~ Anthony Fauci
Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.
~ Margaret Heffernan
In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.
~ David Whyte
Leadership is about having the courage to go against the advice of the so-called experts and doing what your instinct tells you is right.
~ Robert Kraft
In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody.
~ Biz Stone
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
~ Major Owens
I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.
~ Drew Gilpin Faust
I think leadership is something you earn, more through actions than words.
~ Ander Crenshaw
Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
~ Christie Hefner
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
~ Pat Riley
I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.
~ Bob Ehrlich
Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
What's increasingly clear is that when you are open to a discussion of leadership, and you're relating it to your company, it is much easier to get people to become open.
~ Kenneth Chenault
And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.
~ Don Nickles
You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.
~ Phil Crosby
Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.
~ Don Tapscott
I've always voted Republican because America is exactly that, a republic. You can't expect much leadership with a Democrat behind the desk their not even close to dual efficient.
~ Audrey Meadows
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.
~ Mark Twain
Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.
~ Giada De Laurentiis
You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.
~ Nargis Fakhri
