Barack Obama Quotes

Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

In every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some people become immobilized. Some people become very angry, some commit suicide, and other people begin to find solutions. And visionary organizers look at those people, recognize them and encourage them, and they become leaders of the future.

Leaders are made by the situations they are involved in. I think that some rise to the occasion and some do not.

It is in times of crisis that good leaders emerge.

I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.

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

I believe that crisis really tends to help develop the characer of an organisation.

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

It's important for presidents to emotionally connect, with the country in times of crisis, but also with people in Washington. If you can't emotionally connect - and [Barack] Obama is not the greatest, but he can at least do it - then people won't be with you when the times are hard.

You need those people to also have power and authority, and in a way that has been the story of my career.

We deal with people that are going through divorces and that are facing life-threatening illnesses, and I'm giving them hope. And to me, I don't think there's anything "lite" about that.

When you get a big crisis, everyone wants somebody with some experience and some credibility.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.' But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn't a position, it's a process.

I'm not a panic guy. I don't do that. Can't. When you're a leader, you can never panic, no matter what's happening. The building could be falling down. Fire could be going all places. Somebody has to make a decision on how to get out.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

You can't become a leader in one conference.

I think Donald Trump showed a real quality that every leader needs, and that's resiliency.

I think you can improve on that natural ability with training and exposure to great leaders of the past and to management theories.

Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.

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.

You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.

Many people are leaders trapped in a follower's body.

In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette