Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

"The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions"

Henry L. Stimson, Statesman

"The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks"

Rupert Murdoch, Publisher

"Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father"

Daniel Goleman, Author

"Leadership is not a position or title, it is action and example"

Blaine Lee, Author

"The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself"

Blaine Lee, Author

"Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them"

Dean Rusk, Diplomat

"One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears, by listening to them"

Dean Rusk, Diplomat

"I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns"

Mike Wilson, Writer

"How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?"

Francois Rabelais, Clergyman

"Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that"

Lyn Nofziger

"I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership"

Patricia Ireland, Activist

"The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare"

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Politician

"Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have"

Saul Alinsky, Activist

"I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics"

Chris Patten, Politician

"The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies"

Oliver Cromwell, Soldier

"Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong"

Robert. L. Ehrlich, Politician

"If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems"

George Soros, Businessman

"True leadership lies in guiding others to success, in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well"

Bill Owens, Politician

"Lack of charisma can be fatal"

Jenny Holzer, Artist

"I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment, the sober second thought of the people"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check"

Kevin Costner, Actor

"If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers"

Dee Hock, Businessman

"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability"

Robert Half, Businessman

"Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people"

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Royalty

"Leadership demands that we make tough choices"

Alan Autry, Actor

"Leadership does not depend on being right"

Ivan Illich, Sociologist

"I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"Anytime the president visits Nebraska it's good for Nebraska"

Ben Nelson, Politician

"Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit"

Howard Gardner, Psychologist

"Government is not show business"

Warren Beatty, Actor

"I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience"

George Szell, Composer

"They that govern the most make the least noise"

John Selden, Statesman

"I came to Washington, D.C. to continue President Trump's America First agenda and deliver for Northwest Georgia"

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Politician

"The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

"A person, who, no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader"

Daisaku Ikeda, Writer

"Get off your ass and get down here to fix the goddamn biggest disaster in the nation's history"

Ray Nagin, Politician

"The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe"

Joschka Fischer, Politician

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