Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

"As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States"

Bill Owens, Politician

"We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones"

Northrop Frye, Critic

"I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did"

Louis Freeh, Lawyer

"I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea"

Joshua Chamberlain, Soldier

"Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do"

Marc Ribot, Musician

"One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others"

Stefan Zweig, Writer

"The time will come, without my seeking it, that my words will almost serve as law. If I ask a certain thing, it will be done. If I don't want something, it will not be done"

Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman

"It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office"

William Weld, Politician

"Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions"

Robert. L. Ehrlich, Politician

"As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute"

William Pollard, Clergyman

"If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do"

William Pollard, Clergyman

"I was concerned about who he would put in there as FBI director because he had expressed antipathy for the FBI, for the director. I was going to stay there and make sure that he couldn't replace me"

Louis Freeh, Lawyer

"Education is the mother of leadership"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue"

John Sununu, Politician

"There is a reason the world always looks to America"

Julia Gillard, Statesman

"First of all, I try to be a positive role model"

Bruce Jenner, Athlete

"The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government"

Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman

"In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world"

Joe Lieberman, Politician

"I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy"

Joe Lieberman, Politician

"Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application"

William Weld, Politician

"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"Mr. President, I believe your real problem is that you have somehow been unable to realize that you have won, not only won, but been re-elected by a tremendous margin"

Elliot Richardson, Lawyer

"The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results"

LL Cool J, Musician

"A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States"

Pierre Salinger, Public Servant

"One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care"

Michael Korda, Novelist

"Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability, financially, has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement"

Maurice Strong, Businessman

"The new co-operation government will do the best it can to address the country's problems, and I believe that with the co-operation of all - and the new government stresses this - and the unity of all, we will achieve that"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's Euro membership is not endangered"

Lucas Papademos, Politician

"If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then it's essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts"

Dee Hock, Businessman

"We need role models who are going to break the mold"

Carly Simon, Musician

"It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required, who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require"

Dee Hock, Businessman

"The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring"

Robert Reich, Economist

"Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia"

Dee Hock, Businessman

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