Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

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"Every cook has to learn how to govern the state"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

Vladimir Lenin

"I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own"

Henry Ford, Businessman

Henry Ford

"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

Charles de Gaulle

"The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

Charles de Gaulle

"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

Lyndon B. Johnson

"I'm the only president you've got"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

Lyndon B. Johnson

"There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

Elizabeth I

"I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that of my crown"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

Elizabeth I

"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results"

George S. Patton, Soldier

George S. Patton

"All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated"

George S. Patton, Soldier

George S. Patton

"A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity"

George S. Patton, Soldier

George S. Patton

"I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process"

Donald Trump, Businessman

Donald Trump

"The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

Dan Quayle

"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

Dan Quayle

"I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

Dan Quayle

"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

Eric Hoffer

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

Thomas Aquinas

"At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right"

Bill Gates, Businessman

Bill Gates

"Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

Marcus Garvey

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen"

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

"Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do"

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

"One man with courage makes a majority"

Andrew Jackson, President

Andrew Jackson

"Politics is the art of controlling your environment"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

Hunter S. Thompson

"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

Douglas MacArthur

"Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive"

John D. Rockefeller, Businessman

John D. Rockefeller

"Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

Tom Stoppard

"Power is like being a lady... If you have to tell people you are, you aren't"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

Margaret Thatcher

"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

Margaret Thatcher

"I voted for you during your last election"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

Mao Tse-Tung

"Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff"

Colin Powell, Statesman

Colin Powell

"Dictators never invent their own opportunities"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

R. Buckminster Fuller

"And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!"

Brian Mulroney, Statesman

Brian Mulroney

"Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them"

Diogenes of Sinope, Philosopher

Diogenes of Sinope

"Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

Hubert H. Humphrey

"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign"

George W. Bush, President

George W. Bush

"The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols"

Tom Peters, Businessman

Tom Peters

"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

Desmond Tutu

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