Time Management

Leadership is an action, not a position. - Donald McGannon

What Washington needs is adult supervision. - Barack Obama

Behind leadership there is always a person. - Unknown

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. - Fletcher Knebel

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. - Robert Baden-Powell

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

The only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it. - John Cleese

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

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership. - James Humes

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions. - Bo Bennett

The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example. - John Wooden

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. - Harvey S Firestone

The best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. - Carlos Ghosn

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it. - Omar N. Bradley

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. - Brian Tracy

You do not lead by hitting people over the head; that is assault, not leadership. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Leadership is all about influence - the first person you need to influence is you. - John C Maxwell

You can only go as high on the leadership ladder as your character will allow you. - John C Maxwell

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. - Peter F Drucker

The day people stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. - Colin Powell

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

Leadership does not mean getting people to do their job. It means getting people to do their best. - Unknown

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them. - Carlos Ghosn

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold H. Glasow

Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well. - Clayton Christensen

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't. - Peter F Drucker

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive, but those who can best manage change. - Charles Darwin

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line. - Elvis Presley

Basketball develops individuality, initiative, and leadership. Now get out there and do exactly what I tell you to. - Dick Vitale

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked. Leadership is defined by results, not attributes. - Peter F Drucker

Leadership is about creating powerful human currents moving enthusiastically and creatively in the right direction. - Unknown

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. - John Buchan

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence. - Unknown

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why. - Katharine Whitehorn

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. - Agha Hasan Abedi

Finance functions lose the potential to steer their organizations to success when they defer performance management to other functions. - Jack Alexander

One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times. - Mario Batall

Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind. - Mahatma Gandhi