Quotes about leadership

Difficult missions will bring difficult challenges which may sometimes produce temporary setbacks. The test of a human being is in accepting the failure and going on trying until he or she succeeds. Managing failure is the essence of leadership.

Abdul Kalam

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that’s a big deal. And if you’re going to be a leader – if you’re a leader and you’re the smartest guy in the world – in the room, you’ve got real problems.

Jack Welch

I don’t look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.

Michael J. Fox

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.

Ken Blanchard

Leadership is an achievement of trust.

Peter Drucker

Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Peter Drucker

A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don’t cry about what you don’t have. Use what you got.

Jesse Jackson

Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.

Peter Drucker

If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It’s about them.

Jack Welch

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

Seth Godin