Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Ramstad

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.

Jim Rohn

The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.

Jim Rohn

Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out.

Jim Rohn

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Jim Rohn

Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

Jim Rohn

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Jim Rohn

As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.

Jim Rohn

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Jim Rohn

If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.

Jim Rohn

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Jim Rohn

Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.

Jimmy Fallon

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!

John Cornyn

The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.

Jody Williams

It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership.

Joe Biden

A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer. It's the civil rights of our day. It's the issue of our day.

Jimmy Haslam

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

John D. Rockefeller

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Lindsey Graham

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

Lewis Grizzard

Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Lewis H. Lapham

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Lewis H. Lapham

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

Lewis Carroll

You can't be that good; you work for me.

Leonard Baskin

I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.

Joseph Heller

Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.

Mike Krzyzewski

Talent is important. But the single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself. I really believe that that's been ultimately important for us.

Peter Thiel

You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.

Peter King

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.

Peter King

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.

Peter Salovey

People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.

Peter Senge

The care leadership strategy is simple: be a model. Commit yourself to your own personal mastery. Talking about personal mastery may open people's minds somewhat, but actions always speak louder than words. There is nothing more powerful you can do to encourage others in their quest for personal mastery than to be serious in your own quest.

Peter Pace

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.

Peter Pace

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

Peter Jacobsen

The only reason these kids keep score in these games is for the parents and coaches satisfaction. Who cares? They're 10 years old.