Quotes about Leadership

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement.

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

To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd.

It all began with a dozen men and a handful of women: and then the Spirit came.

There was no real up-and-down structure, but merely a figure at the top and then everyone else scrambling for his attention. It wasn't task-based so much as response-oriented—whatever captured the boss's attention focused everybody's attention.

There was something curiously aligned between the Trump family and MBS. Like the entire Saudi leadership, MBS had, practically speaking, no education. In the past, this had worked to limit the Saudi options—nobody was equipped to confidently explore new intellectual possibilities. As a consequence, everybody was wary of trying to get them to imagine change. But MBS and Trump were on pretty much equal footing. Knowing little made them oddly comfortable with each other.

it confirmed Bannon's worst fear: Trump, in his true heart, was a marshmallow.

there was another rationalization: Trump was "inspirational not operational.

Trump usually avoided: he had no interest in personnel problems, since they put the emphasis on other people.

You could hardly find an entity more at odds with military discipline than a Trump organization.