Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geri Halliwell

I don't know a lot about politics but I have great trust in him as leader.

Geraldine Brooks

What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians.

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.

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.

Francois Rabelais

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

Howard Gardner

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

Hoshyar Zebari

We as Iraqis have suffered enormously as a result of al-Qaeda and its leader.

Gough Whitlam

I have more influence now than when I had the power.

Gianfranco Fini

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

Harvey S. Firestone

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Harvey S. Firestone

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.