Melanne Verveer Quotes

I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.

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

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

Every one of us has the capacity to lead.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.

If you are in a position to influence someone, you are a leader.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

I am and always will be a leader.

The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are 'ridiculously in charge,' then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

There is only one way to respond to the issue of leadership and that is to lead.

Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision

Some talk change. Others cause it..

Leadership does matter.

That's part of being a leader, being the guy that people look to and making everybody around you better.

Whether you empower one person or the free world, that is leadership.

Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

I never thought we had a chance of impacting anything. I am just starting to realize that we can change things - not just VICE, but all of us. In fact, we have to.

I hope to inspire people, influence people.

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.