Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kerry Packer

He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)

Kerry Washington

You can be the lead in your own life.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are lead by trifles.

Napoleon Hill

What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.

Napoleon Hill

No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself.

Napoleon Hill

If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Leaders have to be dealers in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Leaders deal in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

Napoleon Bonaparte

One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Norman Lear

In this nation, leadership is dollars.

Norman Lear

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

Oriana Fallaci

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

Oriana Fallaci

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

Orison Swett Marden

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

Olympia Snowe

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

Olesya Rulin

I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.

Oleg Cassini

The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.

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.