Leadership Philosophy Quotes

A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.

Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.

I think at least my philosophy of leadership is you focus more on the areas you have to improve or the mistakes than you do on your successes. And that's just how I am in real life. I don't want to let down my customers, my employees, my shareholders.

The servant leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve.

I think in a lot of ways, I handle the leadership role a little different than others. I'm not going to rah-rah or slap you across the helmet or push you. I'm going to talk to you.

Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.

Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.

I start with people's growth, my own growth included. I don't start with the company's strategy or products. I start with people's growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the company's growth will in many respects take care of itself.

I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses.

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

Panda - We're not really selling Chinese food, you know. Our real purpose is about developing people.

You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.

One of the topics I'm most passionate about is servant leadership - the greatest leaders recognize that they're here to serve, not to be served.

I want my people to work hard. But if they see me earning a lot more than they do, they would lose their sense of being owners of the factory, and what I say as factory manager wouldn't stick.

President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.

A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.

Let me make one thing clear. I have never considered mere survival in power as any achievement, just as I have never seen coming to power as an achievement in itself.

Truth is, I prefer to think that I have joined the 'Globe,' not purchased it, because great institutions, public and private, have stewards, not owners.

I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented. The philosophy that he developed, of course, he was greatly influenced by Gandhi and Jesus Christ.

It's not that I'm a 'Let's hug and be joyful all the time' boss. Or that I don't, quote, 'own my own power.' I just never want to be that big, swingin', rule-by-fear person.

I'm not a great boss because I don't like to tell other people what to do.

My number one philosophy for leadership is leadership by example. If you are not willing to do it yourself, how can you show others how to do it?