Leadership Speaker Quotes

Leadership reveals itself in the big moments, but is forged in the small. It is the exponential and compounding product of our many incremental behaviors and actions; all of which arise out of our choices in values, beliefs & emotions. Choices all. Not a one is thrust upon us. ~ Christopher Babson

Do we follow the road life's placed before us?
Or do we dare step up and forge an exceptional path.
A path fraught with struggle and sacrifice,
Yet one whose outcome places us in destiny's arms. ~ Christopher Babson

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time. ~ Carl Yastrzemski

Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. ~ Ronald Reagan

In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them. ~ Ron Suskind

If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of at
least a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies follow
your business approach, you are certainly an important manager with
leader characteristics. ~ Eraldo Banovac

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy. ~ Michael Bergdahl

Every nation can harness the energy of its citizens, either towards constructive work to generate optimism and hope, or towards tensions, unrest and war. ~ Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me. ~ John C. Maxwell

Those who like to command and control others are always scared of their authority been challenged or criticized. ~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I think that notion of leadership is bankrupt. ~ Ronald A. Heifetz

Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it's overcoming the facts. ~ Jeremy Grantham

It's interesting what former presidents do when they leave office. Bush is now working as a motivational speaker. And if you want to be motivated, who better to turn to than the guy who invaded the wrong country and started a depression. ~ David Letterman

When you interact with people who are insecure, you must watch your every word and action you take. Secure people give you the freedom to make innocent mistakes. ~ Assegid Habtewold

The ideal politician is an ordinary representative of his class with extraordinary abilities. ~ Rick Perlstein

Strong leaders encourage you to do things for your own benefit, not just theirs. ~ Tim Tebow

Learn to leverage the Law of Cause and Effect to your advantage in positive ways! ~ Susan C. Young

There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them,
and that's not training them and keeping them ~ Zig Ziglar

Wisdom is the ability to ignore foolishness ~ Lazarus Takawira

The true leader is always led. ~ C. G. Jung

Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles. ~ Erma Bombeck

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. ~ Colin Powell

Good," said the First Speaker. "And tell me, what do you think of all this. A finished work of art, is it not?"
"Definitely!"
"Wrong! It is not." This, with sharpness. "It is the first lesson you must unlearn. The Seldon Plan is neither complete nor correct. Instead, it is merely the best that could be done at the time. Over a dozen generations of men have pored over these equations, worked at them, taken them apart to the last decimal place, and put them together again. They've done more than that. They've watched nearly four hundred years pass and against the predictions and equations, they've checked reality, and they have learned. ~ Isaac Asimov

The "real stuff" is what he calls the music that is piped in through the speaker in the machine. The music that comes from inside my head is not considered real. ~ Francisco X Stork

The Taliban has a huge leadership problem at a critical political moment, another caliph has announced himself to the world, and the Taliban has been silent. And that is getting noticed by militants across South Asia. ~ Graeme Smith

creativity is the single most important leadership competency ~ Anonymous

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly. ~ Cristina Kirchner

the pen is as wise as the mind that speaks through it ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We cannot build a vital economy by delivering pizzas to one another. ~ Jim Wright

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower. ~ Dustin Diamond

A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him. ~ John C. Maxwell

Obama's a great speaker. Because of his speaking ability and his appearance, a lot of guys got on board. Being the first African American, a lot guys got on board. ~ Pete Rose

Leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions. ~ Danny Glover

When someone uses the phrase 'the prick one', and you know immediately that this is a synonym for the word 'metaphorically', you are entitled to wonder whether you know the speaker too well. You are even entitled to wonder whether you should know her at all. ~ Nick Hornby

Most Leadership is Greedership dressed up in sheeps' clothing pretending to care for humanity. ~ Tony Dovale

Radio was theater of the mind. ~ Ronald Reagan

When you focus on revenge, you're uploading only negativity to your system. You should focus on moving forward and enjoy the little things in life. For we know, that innocent smile of yours is a big obstacle in the eyes of the haters. ~ Fasela Oosterwolde

The internal system of an abuse victim differs from the non-abuse system with regard to the consistent absence of the effective leadership, the extreme rules under which the parts function, and the absenve of any consistent balance or harmony. Typically, the parts operate around outdated assumptions and beliefs derived from the childhood abuse, believing, for example, that it is still extremely dangerous to reveal secrets about childhood experiences which were endured. ~ Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

In Iraq and Syria, American leadership - including our military power - is stopping ISIL's advance, instead of getting dragged into another ground war in the Middle East, we are leading a broad coalition, including Arab nations, to degrade and ultimately destroy this terrorist group. ~ Barack Obama