Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

Maureen O'Hara, Actress

"The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

"As Mayor of San Francisco, I will work hard to ensure that in the event of natural or man-made disasters, San Franciscans are prepared and our city is protected"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do"

George Pataki, Politician

"I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is"

Edward James Olmos, Actor

"One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker"

Rick Perry, Politician

"Ronald Reagan was a president of strength. His philosophy was a philosophy of strength - a strong military, a strong economy, and strong families"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze"

James Nathan Miller, Writer

"Power is the ability to get things done"

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Businesswoman

"Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III"

Walter F. Mondale, Lawyer

"I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me"

Bea Arthur, Actress

"Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter"

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Businesswoman

"Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards"

Michael Bergdahl, Author

"I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody, and then it turned out that I can"

Meg Ryan, Actress

"America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man"

James Harrington, Philosopher

"See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore"

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Businesswoman

"It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government"

Robert Jackson, Statesman

"Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"Great companies, in the way they work, start with great leaders"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow"

Marian Anderson, Musician

"The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate, regardless of what job they did for the company"

Michael Bergdahl, Author

"So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"It is always the village women who drive these things"

Stephen Lewis, Politician

"The key to any successful plan is buy-in from the public, and what this process has demonstrated is the importance of including citizens in formulating a consensus plan that preserves our beautiful refuge"

Ron Kind, Politician

"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you"

Paul Bryant, Coach

"Under the leadership of this President, the State of the Union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses"

Jose Serrano, Politician

"Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me'"

Karl Rove, Politician

"It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set"

Jon Hamm, Actor

"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control"

Tom Landry, Coach

"It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term"

Peter Mandelson, Politician

"The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship, to make America stronger, is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans"

John F. Kerry, Politician

"Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations"

Peter Mandelson, Politician

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