Sudha Murty Quotes

Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.

Leadership is... to make sure you never limit the idea or opportunity.

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk…. Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations…. Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.

Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

For me, I think it's such a notable point to make that a leader had to believe, a leader had to see that potential.

If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.

My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

My leadership style is to produce a fear of not changing..

We always want our leaders to be great leaders.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

I don't subscribe to, 'Here are the top ten tips to successful leadership,' or, 'How to learn leadership in ten minutes.' A leader is someone who gives positive energy to others which then results in a better change than would have happened. I think everyone is a leader.

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.

Leadership requires the ability to engage and to create empathy for communities with disparate needs and ideas. Telling an effective story - especially in romantic suspense - demands a similar skill set.

The key to leadership is having a vision, and being strong enough to say no and not try to please everybody. Thats a recipe for failure. Leadership is practiced through attitude and actions, rather than words and memos.

Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.

Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.

Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.

Leaders who fail to lift others in the long run, fail to lift themselves.

Work hard. Think big. Listen well.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.