Leadership Quotes

“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

“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