Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Letterman

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says he will not seek re-election. Harry said he wants to spend more time with his family. As I always say, check with your family.

David Gergen

At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

David Ogilvy

Leaders grasp nettles.

David Ogilvy

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

David Ogilvy

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

Darrell Royal

He looks like he needs worming.

Daisaku Ikeda

There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.

Daisaku Ikeda

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

Condoleezza Rice

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

Condoleezza Rice

Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

Condoleezza Rice

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

Condoleezza Rice

You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.

Condoleezza Rice

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

Cleopatra

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

Dan Simmons

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

Dan Fouts

So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.

Dan Gable

There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.

Cyril Falls

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

We had a 60-point lead going into the finals, so it didn't matter that West Allegheny won two of the three head-to-head matches we had with them.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Donna Karan

I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.

With Photoshop we already have the leading position in the photo-editing market. But we always see room for making it better.

The one thing we didn't want to do was to have the lead and tighten up, so with the lead down the stretch, we looked to push the pace.

To me, the word 'hero' hasn't got positive or negative value - 'hero' is the person who leads you through the story.

There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.

Ron Wilson

Tremendous play by Joe. That play was unbelievable. He's leading the league by about 20 assists. He makes plays every night.

Alfred Molina

Yeah, when you're kind of my size and look the way I do, leading man romantic leads aren't going to come your way.

Dan Campbell

You know what makes him a leader is what he did the other day,

We never got a real big lead on them, and we got to work on some things.

Helene D. Gayle

A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.

I was not comfortable - a 4-1 lead means nothing in a state playoff game.

I would move the bill, obviously, and I don't think that's what our leadership wants us to do.

You are going to see the two of them lead us all season and the thing is, they are only going to keep getting better. They don't run all year. They don't run track.