Famous Quotes & Sayings

Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.

George Ryan

without his leadership we might not be here this afternoon.

Peter Chernin

We need to be in a leadership position about protecting minors.

Orson Scott Card

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.

Plato

Those who seek power are not worthy of that power.

We've got tremendous leadership on this team period - it doesn't matter who wears the letters.

This season, she's a completely different person than she was as a freshman. She took the leadership on the women's side this year. Vanessa has all my respect and I'm very proud to swim with her.

We think the two-year time period provides the stable leadership that we need to really do this the right way.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Madeleine Albright

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

Emily Williams

I'm here to teach them about JSU and different leadership positions and their roles.

Bill Shuster

Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.

Cathy Rigby

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

Bill Bradley

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Some of the players were leaning on leadership to do most destabilizing thing possible for a union, to open they contract. They will rue the day they did this.

My mom was really my first scout leader. If it weren't for women, we wouldn't have the leadership that we need.

Look, it's a tumultuous, challenging time for the party. That simply means that the leadership of the party has to be up to that challenge.

Peter Drucker

Management is doing a thing right; leadership is doing the right things.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is not the experience, it is leadership that counts,

I think term limits are detrimental to the policy making process because they get in the way of the leadership process.

Kate Warne

I think we're going to see a lot of volatility as the market tries to sort out where the new leadership will come from.

Our leadership has to step forward, and not just by being vocal in the room.

Bjorn Borg

If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I'm going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.

Bill Gates

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates

Leaders are those who empower others.

Benny Hill

Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Bill Gates

All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them...to everyone.

Bill Gates

Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.

Bill Gates

If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.