Mitt Romney Quotes

The essence of leadership involves a clear sense of what you want to achieve, the ability to do what may be unpopular … and a willingness to step up

We've got to stop pandering and start leading.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

A leader can't pick and choose when he wants to lead.

I've always tried to be a leader.

I think I am capable of captaincy.

Leadership is about stepping up when it's the appropriate time and then making sure everyone knows that we're all on the same page.

If the players understand and accept that their leader is steering their direction through thoughtful, careful measures, then they will pull together to give the best effort every time.

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

When placed in command, take charge.

Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now.

I love to be directed. They can trust me and go.

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

If you are in a position to influence someone, you are a leader.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

People look for their leadership to lead.

I am and always will be a leader.

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are 'ridiculously in charge,' then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

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

[President] McKinley gave [Lt. Andrew Sommers] Rowan a letter to be delivered to [General Calixto] Garcia: Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the eternal, there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land. It is not book learning that young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing—"carry a message to Garcia.

Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision