Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Branson

Communicate your passion clearly, concisely and with genuine conviction.

Robert Andrews Millikan

One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated into action for the benefit of society as a whole. There is no step more important for the removal of that inhibition than that of providing for intimate contact between the leaders in the fields of pure and applied science.

Robert A. Heinlein

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

Robert A. Heinlein

Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.

Steven Spielberg

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.

Tom Vilsack

Americans ... want leaders who share their values, understand their needs, and respect their intelligence.

Tom Coburn

Tactics and strategies ought to be based on what the real world is, and we do not have the political power to do this. We're not about to shut the government down over the fact that we cannot, only controlling one house of Congress, tell the president that we're not going to fund any portion of [Obamacare]. Because we can't do that.

Tim Kaine

This is one where you can just kind of go to the tape on it. But Governor [Mike] Pence said inarguably Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President [Barack] Obama.

Tim Costello

I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water.

Tim Foley

Humility is always one play away.

Sam Houston

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Ronald Reagan

After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Only in this case, it's not flattery, but grand larceny: the intellectual theft of ideas that you and I recognize as our own. Speech delivery counts for little on the world stage unless you have convictions, and, yes, the vision to see beyond the front row seats.

Rumi

Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.

Roy Haynes

The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.

Roy Blunt

It takes leaders to grow other leaders.

Rosa Luxemburg

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Rosa Luxemburg

Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

Rosa Luxemburg

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

in most important ways, leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying hand to provide both vision and reassurance that change can be mastered, a voice that articulates the will of the group and shapes it to constructive ends, and an ability to inspire by force of personality while making others feel empowered to increase and use their own abilities.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Leadership is one of the most enduring, universal human responsibilities.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Leaders is the new organisation do not lack motivational tools, but the tools are different from those of traditional corporate bureaucrats. The new rewards are based not on status but on contribution, and they consist not of regular promotion and automatic pay rises, but of excitement about the mission and a share of the glory of success.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Sean Hannity

I like guts in my leaders.

Shoshana Zuboff

Learning has replaced control as the fundamental role of management.

Shinzo Abe

The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.