Hannah Arendt Quotes

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

We have got to stop worrying about being loved and start worrying about being respected. And that's exactly how I'll lead our country.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

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

The coin of the realm of leadership is trust and confidence.

Leadership is not what you said on the Senate floor. It’s not what you’ve said. It’s what you’ve done.

A lot of people think that they are leaders just because they have been placed in charge of something - and you're not.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power. And I try to model that in all of my interactions.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.

Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.

I learned a tremendous amount about what was important to me as a head coach in that I was not in charge. I didn't have final say about what was going on, and I was always having to represent other people's views, and it was very difficult to be real, to be authentic, to be true because there were a number of people who had say about what was going on.

The word is the shadow of the deed.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.