Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

"And I'm comfortable being who I am, so I think a lot of people who take over from a founder worry about how they compare to the founder; I worry about doing the best I can"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there"

Peter Hall, Director

"For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration"

Edward G. Rendell, Politician

"The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions"

John Hancock, Politician

"The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself"

Dave Heineman, Politician

"My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me"

Bela Kun, Politician

"He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at our sleeve to let him tell his tale of what really happened"

Ronald Steel, Writer

"As a leader, you're supposed to be above reproach, and what that means is you can't even give the appearance that you're going to do something wrong"

Kevin Thomas, Athlete

"With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust, he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs"

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Royalty

"I'm not an easygoing guy as a director"

Ted Kotcheff, Director

"Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa"

Peter MacKay, Politician

"You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead"

Tom Ridge, Politician

"I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance"

Perry Christie, Statesman

"It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate"

Lionel K. Murphy, Judge

"The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches"

Russel Honore, Soldier

"While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician"

John George Nicolay, Writer

"We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine"

Viktor Yanukovych, Statesman

"You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket"

Bill Cartwright, Athlete

"Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges"

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Theologian

"I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government"

Robert Kocharian, Statesman

"It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away"

Saad Hariri, Politician

"You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections"

Artur Davis, Politician

"Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on"

Warren Bennis, Writer

"Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way, not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it"

Lionel K. Murphy, Judge

"The House of Commons is a great unwieldy body, which requires great Art and some Cordials to keep it loyal"

Henry Pelham, Statesman

"It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party"

Franz von Papen, Politician

"Sheik Hilaly is making a good contribution. He is making a good contribution"

Alexander Downer, Politician

"I think the toughest part for me was when Herschelle said that he obviously looked up to his captain, and he felt, if his captain could do it, then so could he, and that to me was when it really struck home"

Hansie Cronje, Athlete

"When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks"

Naveen Jain, Businessman

"Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management"

Cheryl Crawford, Actress

"If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived"

John Bracken, Politician

"A President doesn't have a terribly long time to talk to people who are not really on the agenda"

Erich Leinsdorf, Celebrity

"The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us"

Viktor Yanukovych, Statesman

"When you're out of office, you can be a statesman"

John Connally, Politician

"Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate"

Bob Ehrlich, Politician

"I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it"

Bob Ehrlich, Politician

"It is evident, that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state"

Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, Statesman

"I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task"

Beatrix of the Netherlands, Royalty

"Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails"

Ian Gilmour, Politician

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