Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

"So what we - all we really want, I think, from the so-called Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is really to stand up for what we believe in"

Howard Dean, Politician

"I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush"

Howard Dean, Politician

"It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did"

Mike Pence, Politician

"I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am"

Howard Dean, Politician

"The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet"

Dennis Rodman, Athlete

"I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government"

Oliver Cromwell, Soldier

"I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else"

Oliver Cromwell, Soldier

"All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain"

Sam Mendes, Director

"There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative, and I am very excited to creatively lead them"

John Lasseter, Director

"Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed"

Whitney M. Young, Activist

"In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience"

John Burns, Activist

"I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?"

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Politician

"Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

"So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure, but that is different from controlling"

Keith Miller, Author

"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

"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm"

Thomas John Watson, Sr., Businessman

"What you do as president has consequences"

Steve Forbes, Businessman

"Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones"

Herbert Kaufman, Writer

"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed"

Robert Welch, Writer

"You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time"

John Knox, Clergyman

"Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire"

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Politician

"I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency"

Roh Moo-hyun, Politician

"Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective"

Andrew Mellon, Businessman

"For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige"

Robert Welch, Writer

"You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves"

Bob Nelson, Writer

"When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government, France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower"

Lytton Strachey, Critic

"The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses"

Pete Rose, Athlete

"You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions!"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"And if I were the president, I'd go out there and I'd emphasize the things I have done, and I'd say, 'Some things haven't worked, and I'm sorry about that, but I keep trying.' And I'm - and I think the president is a very viable candidate, and you're going to have a real horse race here no matter who the Republican nominee is"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

"My view was that the campaign had been a sacred thing, that it had been a real compact, because I was there and I saw the connection that Clinton made with people, and the connection that they made with him"

Paul Begala, Journalist

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