Quotes about leadership

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.

Peter Drucker

I’m a leader. I’m the leader of this team, and they look for me at any point in the game, and that’s not just scoring-wise, I do other things.

LeBron James

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Desmond Tutu

I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic “one who is worthy of praise” and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients.

Muhammad Ali

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

Queen Elizabeth II

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

Tom Hanks

A good leader shares information, even if they don’t know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.

Simon Sinek

I’ve always been a leader. I’ve always kind of been the tallest person on the team when I was younger but always kind of the smartest. I was ahead of my time. I wasn’t always the oldest, I kind of was the youngest on the team, but, I kind of knew what to do at times.

LeBron James

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

Arianna Huffington

He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could carry, and no true leader sets too fast a pace for his follows to keep up.

Malcolm X