Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

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"A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results"

Harri Holkeri, Politician

"Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be, have achieved greatness before turning 30"

John Cusack, Actor

John Cusack

"I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed"

Oliver Stone, Director

"A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength!"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press"

Henry Reed, Poet

Henry Reed

"I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"Decentralize command"

Jocko Willink, Soldier

Jocko Willink

"There are no bad teams, only bad leaders"

Jocko Willink, Soldier

Jocko Willink

"It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question"

Brian Herbert, Author

Brian Herbert

"Leadership is a relationship that is created between people, which inspires and mobilizes them to achieve a vision"

Blaine Lee, Author

Blaine Lee

"Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first"

Pearl Bailey, Actress

"If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university"

Mark Shields, Journalist

Mark Shields

"I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them"

Mark Shields, Journalist

Mark Shields

"We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men"

Anthony Trollope, Author

Anthony Trollope

"First find the man in yourself, if you will inspire manliness in others"

Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator

"A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

Joe DiMaggio

"Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting"

Paul Harris, Lawyer

Paul Harris

"America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics"

Alveda King, Clergyman

Alveda King

"A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities"

Walter Bagehot, Author

Walter Bagehot

"George Bush is trying to play it both ways"

Mark Shields, Journalist

Mark Shields

"I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind"

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise"

Hayao Miyazaki, Director

"An influential member of Parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least, all the characteristics part of it, that which is original and most his own"

Walter Bagehot, Author

Walter Bagehot

"Herman Cain continues to show himself to be a leader"

Alveda King, Clergyman

Alveda King

"You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place"

Mark Shields, Journalist

Mark Shields

"On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government"

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign"

Mark Shields, Journalist

Mark Shields

"I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop"

James Thomson, Musician

"I feel incompetent to perform duties... which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me"

Andrew Johnson, President

"I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... He seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

Anthony Hopkins

"Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs"

Andrew Johnson, President

"Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks"

Anthony Trollope, Author

Anthony Trollope

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader"

John Quincy Adams, President

John Quincy Adams

"I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do"

Amelia Earhart, Aviator

Amelia Earhart

"Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure"

Al Franken, Comedian

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