Leadership Quotes

"We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them"

Peter Chernin

"At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States"

Olympia Snowe, Politician

"Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong"

Robert. L. Ehrlich, Politician

"I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses"

Yitzhak Shamir, Statesman

"In this nation, leadership is dollars"

Norman Lear, Producer

"I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient"

Kristi Noem, Politician

"If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny"

Dee Hock, Businessman

"Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since"

W. Averell Harriman, Politician

"I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following"

Maurice Strong, Businessman

"The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle"

Richard Grimes

"The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on"

John Sherman Cooper, Politician

"Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures"

Li Peng, Public Servant

"Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts"

Dianne Feinstein, Politician

"Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader"

Indra Nooyi, Businessman

"Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

"But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership"

Chris Patten, Politician

"I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it"

Cyril Falls, Historian

"Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition"

Cyril Falls, Historian

"Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another"

Franz von Papen, Politician

"One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers"

James Humes, Lawyer

"Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership"

James Humes, Lawyer

"IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments"

John Patrick, Playwright

"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy"

Norman Schwarzkopf, Soldier

"The art of communication is the language of leadership"

James Humes, Lawyer

"But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership"

Martin McGuinness, Politician

"With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs"

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Royalty

"Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint"

Lewis H. Lapham, Editor

"Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children"

Jon Kyl, Politician

"Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed"

Mwai Kibaki, Statesman

"Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done"

Vance Packard, Writer

"Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique"

James MacGregor Burns, Author

"Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on"

Warren Bennis, Writer

"You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it"

Norman Schwarzkopf, Soldier

"When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy"

Gennaro Angiulo, Criminal

"From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch"

Virginia Foxx, Politician

"But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance"

William J. Wilson

"I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it"

Bob Ehrlich, Politician

"I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness"

Paul Tsongas, Politician

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