Ryan Day Quotes

Change the leader, change the organization.

So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard at it, and they've been students of it. The more you're a student of leadership, the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you're going to be.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

I don't think you just become a leader.

I grew up in the IBM school of management.

All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.

Being a leader is one thing I've never felt comfortable with. It's not my nature.

Leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

Be the leader you wish you had.

We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.

One must also acknowledge that there are moments in an organisation's development when fresh blood and new vision are required, which may imply that an outsider may be better suited to the leadership role.

I think there is a big and significant difference between being a leader and being a manager-leaders lead from the heart. You have to be analytical and flexible. Flexibility is one of the key ingredients to being successful. If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level.

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.

Those who are not true leaders will just affirm people at their own immature level.

A good leader needs to know how to follow.

Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.

A change in leadership is required to produce a change in outcomes.

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.