Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ella Baker

I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight.

Ella Baker

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

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.

George Wendt

[Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable.

George Will

On March 8 a poll showed Hart 9 points ahead of Reagan. So perhaps 60 million Americans, 55 million of whom had not heard of Hart a month ago, have suddenly decided thay want him to be leader of the free world. The public mind is not just soft wax, it's runny.

George Will

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

George Will

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

George Sand

It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.

George S. Patton

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

George S. Patton

Remember praise is more valuable than blame.

George S. Patton

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Jean-Claude Killy

People ask me what makes a great skier. It takes the gift; but besides the gift it takes all the availability of mind which permit total control of all the elements that lead to victory. - total composure.

Jean-Claude Killy

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

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.

Freddie Mercury

I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps.