Quotes about Leadership

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

Indeed, the world is a better place because there was such a leader as President Gordon B. Hinckley.

Oddly, the most freeing thing we can ever do is to abdicate the throne of our own miniature kingdoms.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

You know, by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. ... You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything.

from Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power...

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody. 

If you're a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don't. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.