8,953 Quotes About Leadership

Opportunity doesn't come to the door knocking. You've got to go out and look for it.

If you're in the habit of listening only to the facts and not the person who expresses them, change your focus - and really listen.

A star wants to see himself rise to the top.A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.

If you don't already have a mentor, go out and find one. If you can't get someone to help you in person, begin the process by reading books. That's where I got started. The main thing is to get the process under way.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

The entrepreneur’s mind-set is completely different to the employee’s mind-set. The entrepreneur finds it abhorrent to conform to organizational norms, whilst the employee finds joy and stability in all that’s tried and true. It’s not that one’s wrong and the other is right. It’s the mind-set that differentiates the two.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.