Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

"But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know, he really, really wants to do something great!"

Andy Hertzfeld, Inventor

"No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill"

Cornelius Nepos

"Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved"

Cornelius Nepos

"You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain, and never explain"

Stanley Baldwin, Statesman

"A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third, and all the time - patience"

Stanley Baldwin, Statesman

"Donald Trump, I would vote for him. Trump would make this country better, I feel"

Nicole Polizzi, Celebrity

"There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices"

Algernon Sydney, Politician

"Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power"

Boyd Rice, Artist

"You know, I had the ability, like a catalyst, to really get everybody hyped up"

Jim Capaldi, Musician

"They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world"

Anthony Holden, Journalist

"Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain"

Roland Joffe, Director

"I don't want to be a follower; I want to be a leader and create new waves"

J Balvin, Musician

"The storytelling I'm interested in is about power: how people get it, how they use it, and how they abuse it"

Alex Gibney, Director

"The best way to lead is to listen"

Emmanuel Macron, President

"Our responsibility is to build a Europe that protects"

Emmanuel Macron, President

"Wilson's approach to politics was rooted in pragmatism, a skill that allowed him to navigate the complex landscape of British politics and maintain the unity of the Labour Party"

Ben Pimlott, Historian

"The remarkable thing about the Queen's reign is how she has managed to preserve the dignity and mystique of the monarchy in an age of growing skepticism and diminishing deference"

Ben Pimlott, Historian

"I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me what you can do.'"

David Ortiz, Athlete

"The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot"

Herman Wouk, Novelist

"My most profound confidence is, however, based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man, by his entire development, his desires, and striving, can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future"

Alfred Jodl, Soldier

"Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority"

Sidney Blumenthal, Journalist

"But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House"

Sidney Blumenthal, Journalist

"Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director"

John Milius, Director

"The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought"

Mary Cheney, Celebrity

"I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No"

Vernon Jordan, Businessman

"I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked"

Leelee Sobieski, Actress

"Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead"

Evan Bayh, Politician

"But unlike the setup in most organizations, where there's an administrator on top and creative people or doers underneath, I'm basically a doer and I like to have administrative people underneath me"

Roone Arledge, Journalist

"The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something"

Brandon Boyd, Musician

"There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush"

Zell Miller, Politician

"At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States"

Olympia Snowe, Politician

"Also, the fact that anything he does is seen and heard by the entire country, not just his actual audience or those who live in the region he happens to be in"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"Uneasy lies the head that craves the crown"

Howard Koch, Screenwriter

"Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport"

Guy Forget, Athlete

"I'm confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there's a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor"

David Dinkins, Politician

"For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration"

Butch Otter, Politician

"Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one"

Valerie Jarrett, Lawyer

"Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems"

Sidney Blumenthal, Journalist

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