Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

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

"Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

"Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen"

Bob Edwards, Journalist

"In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"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

"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

"General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that"

Rowan Williams, Theologian

"What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?"

Gilbert Highet, Writer

"If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!"

Guy Ritchie, Director

"It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart"

Laura Bush, First Lady

"Politics is a people business. I like people"

Laura Bush, First Lady

"How is the Empire?"

King George V, Royalty

"We have come to Los Angeles, hopeful that we're not just going to engage in speeches, or we're not just going to engage in platitudes, but we go home to make a difference to people at perhaps the most difficult time this world has seen in 100 years"

Mia Mottley, President

"I have never sought power, but it has been thrust upon me by the will of God and the love of my people"

Philip III, Royalty

"I believe in the power of mentorship, and I try to be a mentor to as many people as I can"

Mary Barra, Businesswoman

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

Mary Barra, Businesswoman

"We are all encouraged that Bush appears, really for the first time in his experience on the stage of presidential politics, relaxed. His comfort is our comfort"

John Dean, Lawyer

"Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading"

Seth Godin, Writer

"Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions"

Gustav Heinemann, Politician

"I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung"

Earl Browder, Activist

"We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier"

Brandi Chastain, Athlete

"While people out there on the spot certainly have to be held accountable for what they've done personally, the chain of command responsibility for this strikes me as just as important and should be dealt with"

William Odom, Soldier

"So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst"

Pat Boone, Musician

"What tribes are is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever"

Seth Godin, Writer

"When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person"

Red Barber, Celebrity

"You have to stay one level above everyone else"

Jim Otto, Athlete

"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 believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses"

Yitzhak Shamir, Statesman

"We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader, there is a contradiction between the two"

Shimon Peres, Statesman

"Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me"

Sean Penn, Actor

"I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan"

Pat Boone, Musician

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