Skip to main content
0
Quotes
People
Articles
SITE
Home
Quote of the Day
Handpicked
Guides
Occasions
Topics
Birthdays
ABOUT
About Us
Contact Us
Privacy Policy
Site Map
Subscribe
Guides
SITE
Home
Quote of the Day
Handpicked
Occasions
Topics
Birthdays
ABOUT
About Us
Contact Us
Privacy Policy
Site Map
Subscribe
Shortlist
0
Search FixQuotes
Search FixQuotes
Home
Quotes
Topics
Leadership & Management
Leadership (page 14)
Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes
Top 50
Quote of the Day
Finder
Topics
Handpicked
Nationalities
Professions
Random
Similar topics:
Decision-Making
Management
Servant Leadership
Team Building
Vision & Strategy
"A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office"
Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician
"A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
"After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
"As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men"
Pierre Corneille, Dramatist
"Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty"
Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand"
Colin Powell, Statesman
"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it"
Colin Powell, Statesman
"Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time"
Malcolm Forbes, Publisher
"Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing"
Tom Peters, Businessman
"Communication is everyone's panacea for everything"
Tom Peters, Businessman
"In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office"
Grover Cleveland, President
"Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader"
Toni Morrison, Novelist
"Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time"
George W. Bush, President
"Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us"
George W. Bush, President
"People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me"
George W. Bush, President
"I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch"
George W. Bush, President
"I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well"
George W. Bush, President
"I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier"
James Cash Penney, Businessman
"I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
"Only he deserves power who, every day, justifies it"
Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat
"Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them"
Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher
"There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve"
Dick Cheney, Vice President
"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend"
Aeschylus, Playwright
"Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?"
Dick Cheney, Vice President
"I think Barack Obama is a one-term President"
Dick Cheney, Vice President
"Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition"
Adam Smith, Economist
"When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man"
Herbert Hoover, President
"Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe"
Herbert Hoover, President
"Power has to be insecure to be responsive"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
"He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection"
Terence, Playwright
"I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere"
Neil Young, Musician
"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done"
Ralph Nader, Lawyer
"A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment"
Otto von Bismarck, Leader
"The main thing is to make history, not to write it"
Otto von Bismarck, Leader
"An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts"
Otto von Bismarck, Leader
"The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself, and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name, and pockets the credit"
Theodor Adorno, Philosopher
"Clearly, no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in Black and other minority men"
Gloria Steinem, Activist
"Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will, like underwear"
John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist
"There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two"
Bertolt Brecht, Poet
"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... Perhaps the fear of a loss of power"
John Steinbeck, Author
Previous page
Page 14 of 50
Next page
