Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Blalock

You have to have so much lead time to go out and market. What-ever we do we want to do really well. It was just too late.

Within tech, the leadership will come from the larger-cap names,

Richard Blumenthal

These are serious and far-reaching violations that should lead to serious and far-reaching remedies.

I should have been more aggressive, but with the big lead I didn't want to risk anything.

I shot a 65 with a three-shot lead and normally that would be enough.

Lech Walesa

I used to lead 10 million people, so what use to me is just 1,000? From a logical point of view, there is no room for me here.

I urge the population not to demonstrate so as not to soil such a pure and magnanimous act, because such demonstrations could lead to violence.

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

We welcome the review. Our unit leads the nation in recoveries, has in 2004 and will in 2005. Recoveries are up 700 percent under Mr. Spitzer.

We had the 8-4 lead with 13:42 left in the game. We were trying to take time off the clock.

We got out to a very quick lead and that makes if very tough for the other team.

Mahmoud Abbas

We are trying to lead our people to a just peace and to security, and we want to pave the way for the next generations.

We're going to turn Nicodemus loose pretty much this whole season with the opportunity to win races, not necessarily to lead the pack or be a pack runner.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

Kevin Schmidt

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

Evan Thomas

A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.

Milton Glaser

Less isn't more; just enough is more.

Julia Gillard

He will always know as we know now that in the heat of battle he did not fail when mateship and duty called.

Julia Gillard

Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it.

Julia Gillard

One of my prized possessions is still the prefect's tie that I got in this school. I keep it with me. It was the first leadership position I ever had.

Julia Gillard

So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.

Mark Twain

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.

Neal A. Maxwell

The unwillingness of most leaders to set standards, to administer feedback when standards are not met, to praise clearly when standards are met, stands in the way of the development of excellence. The leader who makes no demands of his disciples cannot really lead them at all. The sense of new excitement and new challenge generated by the gospel will be blunted by leaders who shield followers from the full demands of fellowship.

Neal A. Maxwell

I assume, gladly, that in the allocation to America of remarkable leaders like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln, the Lord was just as careful. After all, if you've got only one Abraham Lincoln, you'd better put him in that point in history when he's most needed-much as some of us might like to have him now.

Muhammad Ali

I sought the advice and cooperation from all those around me- but not permission.

Mitch Daniels

When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'

Mitch McConnell

It is time for a leader who will lead.

Mitch McConnell

As the leader of the Republicans what I'm telling that we elected the president to be president. It's time for him to step up to the plate and lead us in the direction of reducing our excessive spending.

Marian Wright Edelman

In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

Mark Udall

President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.

Mark Batterson

We've lost the wow of God because we've lost the woe of God. His perfect holiness helps us truly appreciate His amazing grace.