Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Scheuer

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.

Michael Ramsey

You don't characterize CEOs as dealmakers or in any one particular area. An important characteristic of a CEO is leader. That's probably the most important characteristic.

Michael Kirby

It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.

Mark Twain

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

Merlin Olsen

I do not believe that there is any secret or single formula for success, but there are common threads of thought and action that characterize the successful people that I have been fortunate enough to know and observe. I do know, from my own experience, that our chance of succeeding is much greater when we organize and take charge of our lives. When we are willing to make decisions, we aggressively pursue those things in life that are important to us.

Mason Cooley

Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.

Mary Kay Ash

Leaders teach. They motivate. They care. Leaders make sure that the way to success is always broad enough and straight enough for others to follow.

Mary Kay Ash

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Mary Kay Ash

I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.

Mary Kay Ash

A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.

Mary Kay Ash

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Mary Kay Ash

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Michael Grant

Dekka laughed... "Sam: you're still the leader. You're always going to be the leader. It's not something you choose: it's something you are.

Mencius

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Snoop Dogg

I'm so sick and tired of all this violence, this gun violence. And how could I speak on it - you know - being one who has advocated violence and gun violence? The only way I could do it was through a song that spoke from the heart.

When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce.

Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.

Michael Scott

Leader. Ship. The word 'ship' is hidden inside the word 'leadership,' as its... derivation.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I was first published as a paranormal author back in the early 1990s. I was one of the founders of that original wave of paranormal and am the leader of the new wave of paranormal that started at the beginning of this century.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Fury snorted. "You're the leader, Vane. Lead.

Terry Semel

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

Nick Vujicic

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

Nolan Ryan

You've got to realize that in any competition there is always a winner and loser. When it turns out that you're the loser on a given day, you can be a graceful loser, but it doesn't mean that you're a loser in the sense that you're willing to accept losses readily. Concede that on that day you weren't the best and that you were beaten in competition. But that should make you more dedicated and hard working. It's wrong to accept defeat as a loser. Be graceful about losing, but don't accept it.

Margaret Thatcher

A leader is someone who knows what they want to achieve and can communicate that.

Margaret Thatcher

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

Margaret Thatcher

Consensus is the negation of leadership.

Margaret Thatcher

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher

Leadership is about having principles. A leader must have a vision and principles that will endure for all time and must always be true to these principles, applying them to changing circumstances

Margaret Thatcher

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

Margaret Cho

I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.

Mark Twain

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

Mark Twain

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.