Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tacitus

Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]

Tacitus

Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.

Tacitus

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader..

Tacitus

Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.

Rosalynn Carter

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Ron Fournier

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

Rollo May

One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.

Tom Peters

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

Tom Peters

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

Tom Peters

Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!

Tom Peters

Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'

Tom Peters

Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their "personal style" was their "brand." ("It" starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team. Sorry to be politically insensitive, but who would give a hoot about Tibet if it weren't for the look and style of the Dalai Lama?) Boss at any level: You're either on the "it" boat-or not.

Tom Peters

Leaders do stuff that matters.

Tom Peters

It's not enough to be close to the customer. You've got to be glued to the customer.

Tom Peters

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Tom Peters

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Tom Peters

Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.

Tom Peters

Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.

Tom Peters

The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.

Tom Peters

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

Tom Robbins

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Tom Lantos

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.

Tom Landry

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.