Joseph J. Ellis Quotes

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.

We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

High office—whether elected, appointed, or simply taken—comes with power. But that is not a sufficient precondition for success. Among the world’s hundreds …, only a few really stand out for the risks that they have taken and the changes they have made

Vision without execution is delusion.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

I'll keep battling to realize my dreams.

Don't let the reasons why you don't accomplish your dreams be because of you or a decision that you made. Do everything that you can possibly do to achieve that dream.

I feel like dreams are always a little tricky, you know? But if you just push through the struggles and the hard times, it'll be so worth it in the end because you will be able to get to your dreams.

Good managers ensure good outcomes, but great leaders can deliver a vision by getting people to work together.

Everybody manages differently and as far as I'm concerned the results are the only thing that counts.

Football is one of the most popular sports in the country, and there are many reasons for this. You can take so much from football and apply it to life in general. Just some of those things are goal-setting, preparation, teamwork, perseverance and discipline.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.

Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

Leadership is no longer about position - but passion. It's no longer about image but impact. This is Leadership 2.0.

Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn’t working-no matter how hard they’ve worked to make it succeed.

Leaders are all about what isn't and what-needs-to-be be.

There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.

The transformation will come from leadership.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.