Top 1200 Visionary Leaders Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They have access to the leaders of tomorrow and the leaders of today. What they do matters to the wider public.

I separate the world of startup communities into two constituencies - leaders and feeders. The leaders are entrepreneurs and the feeders everyone else.

Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right now, because the planet is in a lot of pain.

Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.

Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.

Leaders who carry unresolved guilt are forced to hide a part of themselves from those to whom they are closest. They have a secret. They are forced to expend time and energy to ensure that no one finds them out. They know they are not completely trustworthy. Often they assume no one else is either. Guilty leaders have a difficult time trusting. Consequently, guilty leaders have a difficult time building teams.

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.

Guatemala commends the visionary decision of the citizens of Colorado and Washington

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

And I think the American people look to the leaders to lead. They look to the leaders to take on the big problems. And the president deserves a lot of credit for doing that.

Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.

Leaders teach. They motivate. They care. Leaders make sure that the way to success is always broad enough and straight enough for others to follow.

A lot of our so-called Latino leaders are gutless. I talk to these cry-baby Latino leaders, and they say they can't win elections until Latinos are a majority.

Britain, like other European states, is not and never will again be in the top-world-power league, so its male leaders can afford to play subtler, more variegated roles. Leaders of the U.S. don't have that option.

General Sheryl Gordon is a trailblazer and visionary leader.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

In most cases, it's slight and often unintentional gaps in integrity that hold leaders, their employees, and their companies back. Despite their potential, these leaders harm their employees and themselves.

Paul Cummins is a genius. He's a true visionary.

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.

I don't know whether I can call myself a visionary.

In the earlier days of history, kings and leaders went to the battlefield with their men; but today, those who determine that a nation will go to war remain safely behind. The next time leaders talk of warring, all the people should get together and send those leaders to the front lines. Give them a big arena with wonderfully effective ammunition, and the war will be finished in a day

Most experts and great leaders agree that leaders are made, not born, and that they are made through their own drive for learning and self-improvement.

If you want to be a visionary, go out and have some accidents!

The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

You know, there's a difference between politicians and leaders. Politicians read poll numbers and compromise. Leaders do what's morally right.

Growing, for leaders, is like oxygen to a deep sea diver. Without learning and growing, leaders die in terms of their effectiveness.

I think we have some amazing leaders. But then we have some leaders who turn a blind eye to things that contribute negatively to a really difficult culture for women.

Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

There are leaders vocally, and there are leaders by example. I think I'm starting to become better at being a leader vocally, just talking on the court.

You can offer the ability to citizens to choose from one of the two parties and elect their leaders as much as you want. But "democracy" is an illusion - a sham - if the most significant acts taken by those leaders are kept concealed from the citizenry.

Smart leaders believe only half of what they hear. Discerning leaders know which have to believe.

Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.

He [Prince] changed the world!!A true visionary.What a loss.I'm devastated.

Leaders attract potential leaders.

We don’t recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.

General [Michael] Flynn has been in touch with diplomatic leaders, security leaders in some 30 countries. That's exactly what the incoming national security advisor should do.

People follow those who act like leaders, not those who proclaim themselves to be leaders.

When things are not going right, where are the leaders to pull this team together? That leadership sometimes, you just can’t find it. If one of your leaders is the guy who throws five interceptions [in one game], you have an issue.

John Kitzhaber was a visionary leader for Oregon.

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.

My message to Washington is the United States has gone through incredible crises, and our leaders have been able to find common ground. And that's what our leaders have to do.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

Leaders don't convince people to follow them. Leaders walk forward alone and those who want to go down their path decide to follow.

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

Our nation's leaders are fallible. It is therefore time for us to be our own heroes. We can and must be the leaders that are so desperately needed.

How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?

For years when we went into companies to discuss how we could help their leaders be most effective, we heard people say, "Our leaders need to develop executive presence."

Succeed and you are a brilliant visionary. Fail and you are a delusional loser.

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

One knows, of course, that Donald Trump behaves differently from the leaders of other countries, especially the leaders of other Western democracies.

The point about Roosevelt's New Deal was that it was visionary - for the 1930s.