Winnie Byanyima Quotes

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

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.

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.

Leadership requires a blend of strategy, persuasion, inspiration and motivation. It is based on respect more than fear.

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

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.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

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.

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.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

Leadership matters most, and optimism and unity comes from the leader.

We lead by influence. That is what good leadership is about.

To be a leader is to be awake and dissatisfied at all times. Leadership is action. Leadership is influence

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.

As a leader, your job is to share your vision with your followers and either warn them of danger or highlight opportunities coming in the future.

Leadership is more than just managing economic reforms. Leadership means giving broad direction, take up challenges which other people cannot do.

Successful leaders surround themselves with intelligent people.

What makes a leader great is not the fact that she (or he) has all the answers, but the ability to inspire and empower us to find the answers.

Leadership involves building an esprit de corps, the creation of a sense of purpose in pursuit of noble and clear objectives.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

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.