Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

"But I do think the survey group - and I think Charlie Duelfer is a great leader. I have the utmost confidence in Charles. I think you will get as full an answer as you can possibly get"

David Kay, Scientist

"I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of"

John Breaux, Politician

"Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency"

Jay Chiat, Businessman

"Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts"

Erskine Bowles, Businessman

"You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains"

Eduard Shevardnadze, Politician

"You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses... I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don't just deserve it. I have to earn it"

Erskine Bowles, Businessman

"My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can"

Jerry Only, Musician

"When you get to the extremes, there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress, we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom"

Ed Miliband, Politician

"I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue"

Earl Butz, Public Servant

"When they hear from you, it counts. That's how we're going to win"

Charlie Norwood, Politician

"No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself"

Christopher Gadsden, Soldier

"Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you"

David R. Ellis, Director

"The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion"

Kevin Patterson, Writer

"The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent"

Christy Romano, Actress

"We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals"

David R. Gergen

"Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio"

David R. Gergen

"You win by working hard, making tough decisions, and building coalitions"

John Engler, Politician

"I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues, and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it, you know, sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia"

Eduard Shevardnadze, Politician

"We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are"

Ed Balls, Politician

"If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators"

Eleanor Clift, Journalist

"I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people"

Earl Butz, Public Servant

"I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, What matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

"This Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government"

Charles Inglis, Clergyman

"Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office"

David Broder, Journalist

"I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others"

Drew Brees, Athlete

"Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned"

Bill Scott, Actor

"We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal"

David R. Gergen

"This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years"

Art Modell, Businessman

"If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause"

Al Sharpton, Politician

"To win power anywhere, you have to convince people that you can do something for them"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"I think everyone needs to be a role model, period"

Barry Bonds, Athlete

"From William of Orange to William Pitt the Younger, there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the Elder"

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

"We represent people, and any good congressperson wants to know how their people at home feel about issues. I can tell you for sure in our office that is taken into account, and that is true for any congresspersons I know"

Charlie Norwood, Politician

"The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain"

Arthur Scargill, Politician

"There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'"

Chuck D., Musician

"Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?"

Bill Kristol, Politician

"I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels"

Burt Lancaster, Actor

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