Ronald Reagan Quotes

Not everybody who has a vision is a leader, but every leader has a vision.

Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.

You cannot have strong leadership without passion.

Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal.

If a leader cannot give you a clear picture of what he or she sees in the future, that person is not the leader of that organization.

If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.

If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.

I know that millions of Americans from all walks of life agree with me that leadership does not mean putting the ear to the ground to follow public opinion, but to have the vision of what is necessary and the courage to make it possible.

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

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

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. The public does not fully understand the world into which it is going. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. Those leaders who do not are ultimately judged failures, even though they may be popular at the moment.

The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'

Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

People are more inclined to be drawn in if their leader has a compelling vision. Great leaders help people get in touch with their own aspirations and then will help them forge those aspirations into a personal vision.

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

The quality of a good leader therefore is his vision, tenacity, and his capability.

Effective leaders share two intertwined attributes: an unbridled level of confidence about where their organizations are headed, and the ability to bring people along.

The key to leadership is having a vision, and being strong enough to say no and not try to please everybody. Thats a recipe for failure. Leadership is practiced through attitude and actions, rather than words and memos.

Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

There are leaders, and there are those who lead.

Those who lead inspire us Whether they are individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to but because we want to.