Leadership Quotes

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
- Tom Peters

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
- Noam Chomsky

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.
- Margaret J. Wheatley

Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any measures.
- Margaret Chase Smith

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

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

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
- John Naisbitt

Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.
- John Gardner

Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers.
- John Gardner

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
- Jesse Jackson