Leadership Quotes

“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.”

-- Madeleine Albright

“Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.”

-- Margaret J. Wheatley

“I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.”

-- Lee Iacocca

“I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.”

-- Benjamin Carson

“A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.”

-- Henry A. Kissinger

“Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.”

-- Peer Steinbruck

“You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.”

-- Major Owens

“I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.”

-- E. P. Thompson

“Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.”

-- Mwai Kibaki

“We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.”

-- Neil Sheehan