Megyn Kelly Quotes

Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.

In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesn't mean imposing a bunch of rules.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.

In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.

When you trust and have elevated personnel in each department, then the sky really is the limit. If you don't have that trust in the backbone of the project, you may not know what you're making.

When I look at a leader, I look at someone who is able to get exceptional performance out of others.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

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

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

I can let the team do the talking for me.