Leadership Quotes

If there is a worse place than hell, I am in it.

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

To be a successful team leader, one has to stay back after the din and clutter of a working day to emerge better-equipped and ready to face a new day.

To manage the performance of such specialists the team leader has to adopt a delicate balance between the hands-on and the hands-off approach.

What makes life in Indian organizations difficult is the widespread prevalence of this very contemptuous pride. It stops us from listening to our juniors.

A leader should give the credit of the success to the team members. But when failure comes, leaders should absorb the failures and protect the team members.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine memory is necessarily a fine executive. But if he has the memory he has the first qualification, and if he has not the memory nothing else matters.

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.