Anna Wintour Quotes

If I can be a leader, I will.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

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

The essence of leadership involves a clear sense of what you want to achieve, the ability to do what may be unpopular … and a willingness to step up

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

One of the signs of natural leaders of men (and women) was their readiness to take the necessary pains to keep their followers with them.

Leadership in the field, and especially during the hurried organization of the urgently needed new units, must not depend on seniority, meaning age.

I have really enjoyed the responsibility of leading the team and making the decisions out there.

Leaders are meant to lead from the front, but at the same time, they are also meant to listen to what their followers are saying.

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

Leadership does not depend on being right.

Leadership is influence.

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

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.

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.

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.