Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

"I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired"

Louis Farrakhan, Activist

"But when I reintroduced the Nation of Islam, and began to host meetings in cities, and thousands and thousands of people come out"

Louis Farrakhan, Activist

"Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools"

Lord Salisbury, Politician

"Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"Berlusconi is no longer fit to lead our country"

Romano Prodi, Statesman

"Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish"

Mitch McConnell, Politician

"I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. And Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didn't look at his watch, and he didn't allow his campaign aides to cut it off"

Robert Scheer, Journalist

"I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor"

Kurt Masur, Musician

"One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions"

Robert Shea, Author

"The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people"

John Keegan, Historian

"Tony Blair will probably get thrown out by his party"

John Hewson, Politician

"Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline!"

Jane Byrne, Politician

"So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress, and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, when this bill passes"

Jane Harman, Politician

"How dangerous emperors are when they go mad"

Walid Jumblatt, Politician

"By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who, as a result, earns the power to influence others"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

"I do expect that the President will say something at the beginning of his remarks today, at the conversation"

Scott McClellan, Politician

"New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability"

Liam Fox, Politician

"Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed"

Francis Maude, Politician

"We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions"

Danny Glover, Actor

"The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing"

Kay Bailey Hutchison, Politician

"Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted"

Anatoly Chubais, Politician

"As one of the voices of rural New Yorkers in Congress, I am committed to supporting efforts such as these that will make a real impact in people's lives"

John M. McHugh, Politician

"If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"I think it's critical that you feel you're working for a person who is committed to advancing your career"

Andrea Jung, Businessman

"I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve"

Andrea Jung, Businessman

"It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party"

Francis Maude, Politician

"If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized"

Romeo LeBlanc, Politician

"Arnold has succeeded at every level, and I believe he is the only person that can unite the people of this state and lead California from its current dysfunctional condition to the bright future that all residents long for"

Mary Bono, Politician

"We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there!"

Wilson Greatbatch, Inventor

"To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people"

Gustav Krupp, Businessman

"Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art"

Gustav Krupp, Businessman

"I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power"

Kenneth Clarke, Politician

"He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher"

Glenn Ford, Actor

"We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success"

George Haven Putnam, Soldier

"Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state"

Matthew Simpson, Clergyman

"Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause"

Matthew Simpson, Clergyman

"For a time during the 1980s, the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain, but probably in Europe, and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member, and what he said actually had impact on public policy"

Andrew Morton, Writer

"I came not from within the administration, and it was clear and clear in our discussions, and no one asked otherwise, that I would lead this the way I thought best, and I would speak the truth as we found it"

David Kay, Scientist

"Black leadership has to recognize that principles, more than speech, character, more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far"

Louis Farrakhan, Activist

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