Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

"Today is the day for the complaining to end and for statesmanship to begin. Today I am taking action to cut state spending and balance the budget this year!"

Chris Christie, Politician

"I think America needs lots of tough people. Not just me. I think America needs to get tougher, all of us"

Chris Christie, Politician

"Even within the band, if I cannot manage to persuade the members of what I see to be the next course of action, how do you expect the group to deal with the expectations of thousands of people?. It is not possible"

Robert Fripp, Musician

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

Robert Caro, Writer

"Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand"

Anita Borg, Scientist

"People like passion in politics"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens"

Coretta Scott King, Activist

"If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery"

Charles Krauthammer, Journalist

"If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the President's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools"

James E. Rogers, Educator

"In politics, guts is all"

Barbara Castle, Politician

"My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"I want everyone in the Republican Party who opposed me to know this: You are welcome to join this people's crusade. Come aboard. You are both welcome and needed. If we unite, we'll win - and we'll rebuild New York"

Carl Paladino, Politician

"You can't trust anybody with power"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"The president may be a nice guy, but he's just over his head"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"I stand ready to lead us down a different path, where we are lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"I discourage a cult of personality"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"I believe we will elect a new President in 2012"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence!"

Linda Vester, Entertainer

"You need a lot of leaders, but a hockey team needs a voice, not only in the community, but more importantly between the coaching staff and the players. There are always ups and downs in a season; the captain is the guy players look to in those situations"

Joe Sakic, Athlete

"How is the Empire?"

King George V, Royalty

"I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people"

R. Lee Ermey, Soldier

"This summit is on action, and that is exactly what we need right now"

Ursula von der Leyen, Politician

"In the end, the success of any leader is measured by whether the team is better off because of her leadership"

Mary Barra, Businesswoman

"It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust"

Ewan McGregor, Actor

"If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the IKEA employees"

Ingvar Kamprad, Businessman

"It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power"

Major Owens, Politician

"I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha'"

Ernie Fletcher, Politician

"The overriding rule, if you want to run a domain, is to be fair"

Jon Postel, Scientist

"So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title"

Marlo Thomas, Actress

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