Leadership Quotes

“Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?”

-- Paul Ryan

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.”

-- Theodore Hesburgh

“I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.”

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.”

-- Harold S. Geneen

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

-- Steve Jobs

“Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.”

-- Erskine Bowles

“In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.”

-- Helen Clark

“Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.”

-- Junior Seau

“We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.'”

-- Rob Portman

“A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.”

-- Jim Rohn