Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christine Nixon

It's such a rarity to have women in senior powerful positions. We can name them all. Fact is, women can handle power and handle it well. That's something I'd like a lot more women to understand.

Christine Pelosi

Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.

Chris Hadfield

Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.

Gordie Howe

To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.

Gordon B. Hinckley

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others....

Gerry Adams

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

Geraldine Brooks

What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians.

Herman Cain

The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the resources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.

Herb Kelleher

If you don't treat your own people well, they won't treat other people well.

Herb Kelleher

A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.

The world is full of men who want to be right, when actually the secret of a man's strength and his pathway to true honor is his ability to admit fault when he has failed. God wants to fill the church with men who can say they are wrong when THEY ARE WRONG. A man who is willing to humble himself before God and his family and say: "I was wrong." will find that his family has all the confidence in the world in him and will much more readily follow him. If he stubbornly refuses to repent or admit he was wrong, their confidence in him and in his leadership erodes.

Jesse Jackson

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Jesse Jackson

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Jesse Jackson

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust. People want to trust. They're hungry for it. But they're selective. They'll only give it to a motivator, a communicator, a teacher, a real person. Someone who in good times and bad always does the right thing.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.

James C. Collins

The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes, no matter how brutal (within the bounds of the company's core values), to make the company great. Yet at the same time they display a remarkable humility about themselves, ascribing much of their own success to luck, discipline and preparation rather than personal genius.

James C. Collins

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

James C. Collins

I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably some will oppose it. In these settings, the great legislative leader must be artful in handling uncomfortable decisions, and this requires rigor.

James C. Collins

Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make the company great, no matter how big or hard the decisions.

James C. Collins

Level 5 leaders are differentiated from other levels of leaders in that they have a wonderful blend of personal humility combined with extraordinary professional will. Understand that they are very ambitious; but their ambition, first and foremost, is for the company's success. They realize that the most important step they must make to become a Level 5 leader is to subjugate their ego to the company's performance. When asked for interviews, these leaders will agree only if it's about the company and not about them.

James C. Collins

A company should limit its growth based on its ability to attract enough of the right people.

James C. Collins

If your company disappeared, would it leave a gaping hole that could not easily be filled by any other enterprise on the planet?

Jacques Yves Cousteau

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.

Francois Rabelais

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

Howard Gardner

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

Gough Whitlam

I have more influence now than when I had the power.

Harvey S. Firestone

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Harvey S. Firestone

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

Hassan Rouhani

The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed.

Jacques Chirac

Helping to build a better-organized, fair and harmonious world: that idea lies at the heart of my conception of our country's role. Down through the centuries, France has provided answers to the great questions facing mankind. In continuing to do so, France is responding to a genuine demand, displaying leadership and influencing the course of events.

James Callaghan

A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.