John Naisbitt Quotes

Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.

Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

The extreme scarcity of political leaders of any caliber is owing to the fact that they are called upon to decide at any moment, and in detail, problems which the increased size of societies may well have rendered insoluble.

It's easier to talk about leadership if you haven't had to do it.

It's the fate of every executive. He gets in on promises and finds that things can't be fulfilled as he hoped.

All the world looks to this nation for its future, for the leadership that is required at this moment. And we cannot give that leadership and we cannot offer it if we are split up in guerilla groups chewing on each other.

We have had imperfect leaders in the past, and we will have imperfect leaders in the future.

Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard.

Whoever you name as captain, it's a hard choice.

When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.

It's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country [America].

You need a strong, tough leader to restore America's greatness. This is the best person to do that.

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.

I'm going to do everything I can to be the best president I can be for all America.

You know, this country today, it seems to me - it's about fear. And it shouldn't be about fear. It should be about hope and optimism and creativity and accepting a challenge and being a moral leader and being a great nation.

The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself, then I will understand the challenge of trying to change others. This is the ultimate test of leadership.

I'd like to be the next president of the United States to support and help this great nation and to make sure that we all together remain America as the hope of the earth.

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

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.

It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth century as the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the only remaining superpower, the world's leading economy and the world's most respected and feared military force in the world - respected by our friends and allies, feared by our adversaries.

America is looking for a consistent leader.