Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

"Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country"

Jim Ramstad, Politician

"And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice"

John Mellencamp, Musician

"The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation. And I did it with honor"

Hosni Mubarak, Statesman

"Wayne Downing is also a great leader, has served our nation very well, and I think it's great that he's coming back to join a very capable administration already of dealing with this problem, and it will just strengthen that team"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"I respect the president. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help the country we both love. But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president, not who is the better American"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"It's easy to kick somebody when they're down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I've told my colleagues it's time that we go stand up for the president"

John Boehner, Politician

"When the President makes something a priority, we see action"

Herb Kohl, Politician

"Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say, I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him"

John Boehner, Politician

"I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"I became Gauleiter in 1927"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top"

Frank Moore Colby, Educator

"My aim was never to seek a force and take power"

Hosni Mubarak, Statesman

"Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business"

Bill Shuster, Politician

"They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people"

George Weah, Politician

"I found through my fan mail that women... really wanted a role model"

Donna Mills, Actress

"The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards"

Hugh Shelton, Soldier

"There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end"

Henry Villard, Journalist

"I think the Chinese government is doing a great job right now"

Alex Chiu, Businessman

"Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country"

Adrian Cronauer, Entertainer

"We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important"

Bruce Babbitt, Politician

"Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you've got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime"

Bob Balaban, Actor

"The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss"

Alanis Morissette, Musician

"I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically"

Daniel J. Evans, Politician

"A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them"

Augustus Hare, Writer

"I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations"

Aleksandr Lebed, Politician

"And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all, and that you may plainly see on either side all the service and all the faults"

Robert Grosseteste, Statesman

"When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it"

Wally Schirra, Astronaut

"And I think the American people look to the leaders to lead. They look to the leaders to take on the big problems. And the president deserves a lot of credit for doing that"

John W. Snow, Economist

"With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited"

Tom Hooper, Director

"Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so"

Estelle Morris, Politician

"The Queen is by much the most powerful of the forces"

Howard Staunton, Celebrity

"Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people"

Charles Hodge, Theologian

"He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one"

Wally Schirra, Astronaut

"He was a great captain. He was the best captain we could have had at that time because he was a great leader and he was always a positive guy"

Edin Džeko, Athlete

"I firmly believe that young people are a powerful force for social progress. People say you are leaders of tomorrow. I say you are leaders of today"

Ban Ki-moon, Diplomat

"It was important to lead an organization that was by people like us, who have lived experience and know how to tackle these issues in a respectful manner"

Jaha Dukureh, Activist

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