value-based leadership Quotes

America has value-based leadership. America is valued - America is followed by other nations, including my own nation, because it's based on the values that America has to offer to the rest of the world - freedom, freedom of choice, democracy, open market.

We wanted to be led by our mission and to embed our values throughout the world.

Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.

If the person who runs a company has a belief system and everything he does stays fairly truly to that system, it will attract like-minded people who buy into it and then keeps selling itself in concentric circles.

Trust is enormously powerful in a corporation. People won't do their best unless they believe they'll be treated fairly. The only way I know how to create that kind of trust is by laying out your values and then walking the talk. You've got to do what you say you'll do, consistently, over time.

Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy.