Strategic Leadership Quotes:

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, True Leader, Mission And Vision

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Top Management, Management Motivation

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

- Rosalynn Carter

topic: Motivational, Leadership, People, True Leader, Funny Leadership

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspiration, Way, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs, Creating Worlds

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Change, Leadership, Top Management, Management Motivation

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

- Jack Welch

source: Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Leadership, Leader, Growing, Innovative Leadership, Workforce

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Beautiful, Managing Change, Change Management

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

- Norman Schwarzkopf

topic: Leadership, Business, Character, Good Character, Inspiring Leader

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Educational, Live And Learn, Top Management

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

- Bill Gates

topic: Business Life, Innovation And Leadership, Inspiring Business, Inspiration To Others, Inspiring Leader

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

- Ken Blanchard

topic: Inspirational, Successful, Keys, Top Management, Influencing People

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

- Colin Powell

source: Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Inspirational Military, Inspiring Leader

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

- Max Lucado

topic: Motivational, Strength, Leadership, Funny Leadership, Inspiring Leader

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Leadership, Art, Business, Management Motivation, Funny Leadership

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Social Innovation

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Believe, People, Leader, True Leader, Leadership And Vision

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

- Sam Walton

source: Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Educational, True Leader, Inspirational Self Esteem

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

- Ralph Nader

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Top Management, True Leader

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Work, Future, Entrepreneur, Inspirational Hard Work, Strategic Leadership

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

- Theodore Hesburgh

source: Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

topic: Leadership, Business, Blow, True Leader, Innovative Leadership

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

- Max De Pree

source: Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

topic: Leadership, Responsibility, Reality, Funny Leadership, Workforce

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

- Walter Lippmann

topic: Inspirational, Change, Success, Top Management, Funny Leadership

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Relationship, Leadership, Business, Managing People, Innovation And Leadership

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

- Alan Kay

topic: Worry, Way, Live By, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

- Grace Hopper

source: "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

topic: People, Management, Overboard, Managing People, Inspiring Leader

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Past, Way, Study, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success