Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

Herman Cain

The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the resources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.

Herb Kelleher

To be an excellent leader, you have to be a superb follower,

Herb Kelleher

If you don't treat your own people well, they won't treat other people well.

Herb Kelleher

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.

H. L. Mencken

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Jessica Lange

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

Jeff Sessions

[Donald] Trump is where the Republicans are, and if you're going to be a Republican leader you should be supportive of that.

The world is full of men who want to be right, when actually the secret of a man's strength and his pathway to true honor is his ability to admit fault when he has failed. God wants to fill the church with men who can say they are wrong when THEY ARE WRONG. A man who is willing to humble himself before God and his family and say: "I was wrong." will find that his family has all the confidence in the world in him and will much more readily follow him. If he stubbornly refuses to repent or admit he was wrong, their confidence in him and in his leadership erodes.

Jesse Jackson

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Jesse Jackson

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Jesse Jackson

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

Jesse Jackson

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust. People want to trust. They're hungry for it. But they're selective. They'll only give it to a motivator, a communicator, a teacher, a real person. Someone who in good times and bad always does the right thing.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.

James C. Collins

The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how brutal (within the bounds of the company's core values), to make the company great. Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.

James C. Collins

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

James C. Collins

If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.

James C. Collins

I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.

James C. Collins

Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make the company great, no matter how big or hard the decisions.

James C. Collins

Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will. Understand that they are very ambitious; but their ambition, first and foremost, is for the company's success. They realize that the most important step they must make to become a Level 5 leader is to subjugate their ego to the company's performance. When asked for interviews, these leaders will agree only if it's about the company and not about them.

James C. Collins

A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.

James C. Collins

If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?

Jacques Yves Cousteau

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.

Jeb Bush

I think this transition to a candidacy will allow me to be more direct about my advocacy of the leadership skills necessary for the next president to fix a few things, and as a candidate, contrary to someone who has been listening and learning along the way, I'll offer up alternatives to the path we're on as well, so I'll be more specific on policy.

Jeb Bush

I kind of know what my job is, it's to develop a message that's hopeful and optimistic about the future of the country, to develop ideas that will give people a sense that they can lift up, and to tell them about my leadership skills to make it so.

Jeb Bush

Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.

Jeb Bush

Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.

Jeb Bush

What we need is new leadership that takes conservative principles and applies them so that people can rise up.

Jeb Bush

If you apply conservative principles and you stick with it, and you have the leadership skills to bring people toward the cause, you can move the needle on these things, i reject the notion that we can't solve problems, that the gridlock is too enormous to forge consensus. It requires some creativity to get to a win for everybody.

Jeff Bezos

The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.