Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

"It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

"I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace"

Markus Wolf, Public Servant

"The fact is, five months ago, this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue"

Ken Mehlman, Politician

"I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action!"

Jodi Rell, Politician

"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too"

Sam Rayburn, Politician

"I like power and I like to use it"

Sam Rayburn, Politician

"The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"This issue, if not addressed, leaves any President, including George Bush, open to the criticism that they are essentially ignoring the destruction of the nation, and I believe that with all my heart"

Tom Tancredo, Politician

"Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience"

Susan Estrich, Journalist

"I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience"

Roy Romer, Politician

"When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'"

Sam Rayburn, Politician

"I think, as a rifle platoon and company commander, your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you, and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again"

Oliver North, Soldier

"In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"If you're the band leader, you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me"

Kristin Hersh, Musician

"Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win"

Lamar Alexander, Politician

"I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone"

Mother Jones, Activist

"I had to help to coax the performances, and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility"

Christopher Eccleston, Actor

"Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning"

Richard King, Director

"The job of mayor and governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not"

Lamar Alexander, Politician

"I used to say, I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor"

Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Public Servant

"Each person must live their life as a model for others"

Rosa Parks, Activist

"Any great organization can go through sectarian phases"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

"If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama"

Dinesh D'Souza, Author

"Enclave life becomes very tense, even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority"

Robert Caro, Writer

"Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way"

Arthur Blank, Businessman

"There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most"

Ethel Merman, Musician

"What, to an outsider, will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee, may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart"

Learned Hand, Judge

"I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

"There is so much that we need to do for our country. I don't think that we can afford to wait"

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met"

Bill Lipinski, Politician

"We have never yet had a labor government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens"

Dora Russell, Celebrity

"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism"

Charles Schwab, Businessman

"Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table"

Ian Botham, Athlete

"We've been working our tail off and lead by that example"

Ed Rendell, Politician

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