Leadership Quotes

What separates leaders from the crowd? These words from history's most influential figures reveal the answer.

30104 quotes

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"Leadership in service is the highest calling."
Angus Deaton
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"Leadership is about service, not status."
Raj Patel
R
"A true leader empowers others to become leaders themselves."
Raj Patel
"A leader must inspire his men not with cruelty, but with vision."
Hernando de Soto
"To lead men across impossible terrain requires unwavering belief in the possible."
Hernando de Soto
"A leader who listens to his people discovers solutions he could never imagine alone."
Hernando de Soto
"A just leader leaves behind a legacy of opportunity, not merely of conquest."
Hernando de Soto
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"We've forgotten that the public sector is the engine of innovation, not just a regulator."
Mariana Mazzucato
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"The State is not just a corrector of market failures; it is a creator of markets."
Mariana Mazzucato
M
"The state must lead, not just follow market signals."
Mariana Mazzucato
M
"Public institutions should be judged on their mission impact, not accounting returns."
Mariana Mazzucato
M
"Public sector innovation requires institutional autonomy and long-term vision."
Mariana Mazzucato
M
"Public institutions must be entrepreneurial, experimental, and bold."
Mariana Mazzucato
M
"Public institutions should lead, not follow, in addressing grand challenges."
Mariana Mazzucato
M
"Public entrepreneurship is the antidote to both market failure and state failure."
Mariana Mazzucato
M
"The state's role is not to pick winners but to create the conditions for winners."
Mariana Mazzucato
M
"The state is the ultimate venture capitalist, and it should act like it."
Mariana Mazzucato
R
"Leadership is the art of lifting others while ascending yourself."
Raj Patel
K
"The old economic model is broken; it's time to design a new one."
Kate Raworth
K
"Economic systems reflect our values; changing our economy means changing our values."
Kate Raworth
K
"Economic transformation starts with changing the stories we tell."
Kate Raworth
K
"The doughnut is a map for navigating towards a thriving future."
Kate Raworth
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"Incentives matter more than intentions in determining outcomes."
George Akerlof
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"Efficiency without legitimacy is tyranny; legitimacy without efficiency is chaos."
George Akerlof
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"The best economic policy is the one that expands genuine choices for the most people."
George Akerlof
G
"An economy that fails to care for its own household is a failed economy."
George Akerlof
R
"The best way to help people make better decisions is not to lecture them, but to design their choices better through thoughtful defaults."
Richard Thaler
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"Defaults are not neutral. They are powerful choice architects that shape outcomes without anyone realizing it."
Richard Thaler
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"Behavioral insights can help government and business serve people better without restricting their choices."
Richard Thaler
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"Good policy should make it easy to do the right thing, not hard."
Richard Thaler