Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perry

I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that the prevalence of black poverty has actually increased under his leadership, the specific policies advanced by the president and his allies on the left amount to little more than throwing money at the problem and walking away.

Tacitus

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader..

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'.

Tupac Shakur

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Vance Packard

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done

Robert Reich

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

Richard Bach

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why we call it the present. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And If not now, when? A brick alone is nothing but a brick. It takes a collection of bricks to build a house. Instructor, what?? You mean you teach best what you most need to learn

Rick Larsen

A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.

Thornton Wilder

The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

Thomas Huxley

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Thomas E. Mann

All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.

Thomas S. Monson

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

Thomas S. Monson

Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is to be somebody.

Thomas Sowell

When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.

Thomas Sowell

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Thomas Sowell

The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government -- people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty. The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.

Thomas Reid

It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to have established analysis as an independent science, which from his time on has maintained an unchallenged leadership in the field of mathematics.

Robert McKee

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

Robert Menzies

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

Robert Menzies

The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.

Robert McNamara

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

Robert Harris

What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

Robert Baden-Powell

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Robert Baden-Powell

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.

Robert Baden-Powell

Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.

Richard M. Nixon

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Ricardo Semler

I believe no one can afford, endure or can stomach leaving half a life in the parking lot when she or he goes to work. It's a lousy way to live and a lousy way to work.

Ricardo Semler

There is no contest between the company that buys the grudging compliance of its work force and the company that enjoys the enterprising participation of its employees

Ricardo Semler

People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.