Leadership Skill Quotes

In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn.

I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.

Leadership is a lot of hard work. I hoped, when I was younger, that I would just be a natural leader or that it was something that was innate, but it is really a learned skill.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.

Well, it is alarming to have a president [Reagan] who doesn't know what he is doing.

Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.

You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.

The Government are defeated by thirty votes and then the Prime Minister rises in his place, utterly unabashed, the greatest living master of falling without hurting himself, and airily assures us that nothing has happened!

The better the orchestra, often the harder it is to conduct, not the other way around.

You either are a good director or you're not.

You could be a senior senator and have never managed more than a hundred people in your life.

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

Leading is a skill, not a gift. You're not born with it, you learn how.

Either an executive can do his job or he can't.

I'm very confident in my own ability as a manager.

I think leadership is just something that comes really natural to me.

I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director.

Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do.

Listening is a master skill for personal and professional greatness.

Leadership is something I was born with.

Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

The better players you get, the better coach you are.

Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton.