Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
— Harold S. Geneen
You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.
— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.
— Gwen Moore
There have been too few women in leadership because they haven't had the opportunities.
— Gretchen Whitmer
Women need to be in key operational roles where they run businesses in the organization. Sometimes when organizations focus on leadership diversity, they're mostly in areas like HR or non-operating line functions.
— Gracia Martore
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
— Gloria Steinem
I wasn't a very convenient person for the leadership. I had my own opinion about things and knew how to insist on this.
— Gherman Titov
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
— Gerry Adams
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
— George Will
I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
— George W. Bush
Up until the time I was cast in 'Star Trek,' the roles were pretty shallow - thin, stereotyped, one-dimensional roles. I knew this character was a breakthrough role, certainly for me as an individual actor but also for the image of an Asian character: no accent, a member of the elite leadership team.
— George Takei
Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.
— George Packer
I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
— George Osborne
Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to take up floor time and not be successful.
— Gene Green
Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.
— Gavin Newsom
The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.
— Gary Wolf
Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
— Garry Wills
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.
— Haley Barbour
A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're born here, come to this country, and so the business community is for immigration. Big businesses, small businesses, high-tech, low-tech, the communities of faith, and the Republican leadership.
— Grover Norquist
Leadership is leading by example.
— Greg Gianforte
Integrity is a very important and an almost indispensable virtue that all leaders must possess. This is especially true in the Philippine context because we Filipinos really respond to leadership by example.
— Grace Poe
I absolutely will be putting my stamp on this government and my leadership.
— Gladys Berejiklian
For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.
At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
— George Washington Carver
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
— George Soros
When I interviewed Paul Bremer in his office, he had almost no books on his shelves. He had a couple of management books, like 'Leadership' by Rudolph Giuliani. I didn't take it as an encouraging sign.
Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.
— George Ayittey
I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.
— Gene Cernan
I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
— Gautam Gambhir
Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.
— Gary Herbert
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.
A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
— Hamza Yusuf
An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.
— H. Rap Brown
The people of Michigan deserve leadership in Lansing that will work to continue providing them with services they depend on every day.
But any squad needs players who are hungry to do well, with their careers ahead of them. That's important for the dynamic of the group, but it also needs a balance of guys who have seen it, done it and have that quality of leadership. It is all about the quality of the player.
— Graham Potter
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
— Golda Meir
We know that companies which have more women in leadership positions have a better performance.
— Gillian Tans
The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
Mascherano's impact as a leader is more important inside the squad, and Messi's leadership is more important in the pitch.
— Gerardo Martino
We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.
— George W. Romney
All our lives are enriched by the leadership and excellence and confidence of female athletes, whether the Mia Hamms and Maya Moores we know or the field hockey, lacrosse and track and field athletes we do not necessarily know.
— George Vecsey
I can govern by bringing people together. And also, I've been tested in a way no one else has. I was governor on September 11th, and I'm proud of my leadership in bringing New York through that time. And when I left, we were stronger, we were safer, and we were more united than at any time in my lifetime.
— George Pataki
I'm not a legislator. I've never been a lobbyist. I've never worked a session before, but based on my conversations with leadership in the Senate and the House, I get the general sense that people want to work together to make things happen.
— George P. Bush
I work closely with Hispanic leadership.
What I see with the utility industry is, more and more, we're taking up this belief that our workforce, our leadership ranks, our board should be reflective of the community that we serve.
— Geisha Williams
I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.
People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
— Gary Ackerman
