Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Mehlman

The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.

Margaret Thatcher

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

Margaret Thatcher

Consensus is the negation of leadership.

Margaret Thatcher

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Cho

I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.

Mark Twain

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

Mark Twain

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

Mark Twain

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Patrick Ness

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

Laurence Gonzales

Success is a dangerous element in any endeavor. Embrace the struggle. Beware the achievement. For it steals your caution even as it leads you down the next unknown pathway.

Laurence J. Peter

They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.

Laurence J. Peter

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship .

Lefty Gomez

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Oscar Wilde

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

Ivan Illich

Leadership does not depend on being right.

Geraldine Ferraro

Some leaders are born women.

Harry S Truman

A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country.

Harry S Truman

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

Harry S Truman

How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if he had taken a poll in the land of Israel? What would have happened to the Reformation if Martin Luther had taken a poll? It isn't polls or public opinion of the moment that counts. It's right and wrong and leadership.

Harry S Truman

Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.

Harry S Truman

The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.

Harry S Truman

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Harry S Truman

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Harry S Truman

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.

Harry S Truman

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

Harry S Truman

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

J. Paul Getty

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

J. Michael Straczynski

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

Kathy Smith

Healthy body, healthy mind and healthy spirit. A Votre Sante.

Ken Harrelson

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.