Gwyneth Paltrow Quotes

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

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

I don't think you just become a leader.

The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

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

I'm not the type of guy to go out and just say, 'Hey, I'm raising my fist to do this and do that.' I don't think I'm that type of guy. I wasn't a leader the way other people may have wanted me to be.

There are many ways to study Walt Disney, but I think learning about Walt as a leader probably has had the biggest impact on me.

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

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

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.

As with any skill, you have to work at leadership. Watch how the best do it, review what you've done, and look at what you might do.

If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.

Your response to opportunities, adversities and calling, determine the type of leader you become.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.

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

The unexamined leader is not worth following.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.

It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.