Leader Quotes

Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower. (Steve Jobs)
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. View quote
Golda Meir
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The real leader has no need to lead. He is content to point the way. View quote
Henry Miller
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. View quote
John Quincy Adams
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. View quote
Margaret Fuller
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. View quote
Warren Bennis
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. View quote
John Updike
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. View quote
Colin Powell
A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader. (Bernard Baruch)
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. View quote
Newt Gingrich
I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future. View quote
Indra Nooyi
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. View quote
Desmond Tutu
I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect. View quote
Tupac Shakur
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. View quote
Henry Kissinger
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. View quote
James Callaghan
My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it. View quote
Zhu Rongji
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. View quote
Rosalynn Carter
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men, the other 999 follow women. View quote
Groucho Marx