Leadership Quotes

"The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope" "I always feel it's important for me to show females that they can be in charge of their own situation" "The best way to help people change is to help them understand who they are, how they work, and why their work matters" "You win with people" "You win with people." "The more powerful you are, the more your behavior changes the rules." "We teach more by what we are than by what we teach" "The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted, it belongs to the brave" "I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else'" "We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many" "Small groups of people can have a really huge impact" "When I win and when I lose, I take ownership of it, because I really am in charge of what I do." "A true leader has the confidence to stand alone the courage to make tough decisions and the compassion to listen to the needs of others" "A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him" "If you want power, at some point you will have to convince some humans to trust you" "We control the world basically because we can cooperate better than any other animal" "The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death" "In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." "If I maintain enough presence I can always get an audience, and it doesn't matter where I am – whether it is watching a pupil at an inner-city school or an inmate in prison." "The office of the sovereign, be it a monarch or an assembly, consisteth in the end for which he was entrusted with the sovereign power, namely the procuration of the safety of the people."