Quotes about Leadership

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.

Power flows to those who serve.

If you must compromise, compromise up.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

I am the master of my fate and the captain of my destiny.

The dead should not rule the living.

A leader is the one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

If you want to give a light to others, you have to glow yourself.

Where there is no vision, the people perish" (Prov. 29:18a KJV). Unrestrained behavior leads eventually to destruction. People who have no vision also have no goal or purpose—nothing to shoot for. They have nowhere to go in life and, therefore, go nowhere.

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

[Facebook and Twitter] aren't the real problems in the office. The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms, the Managers and the Meetings.