Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Kahneman

We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.

D. H. Lawrence

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

D. H. Lawrence

When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

D. H. Lawrence

No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

D. H. Lawrence

While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

D. H. Lawrence

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

Daniel Defoe

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

Doug Stanhope

What if I don't want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own. I don't want to be led.

Douglas Adams

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Donna Shalala

Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.

Don Tapscott

Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.

Don Tapscott

Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.

Dale Carnegie

Good leaders are scarce; so I'm following myself.

Dale Carnegie

If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.

Corazon Aquino

The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.

Colin Powell

It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

Colin Powell

The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.

Colin Powell

Trust is the essence of Leadership.

Colin Powell

Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

Colin Powell

Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.

Colin Powell

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

Colin Powell

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Colin Powell

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Colin Powell

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Colin Powell

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.