Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vince Lombardi

Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.

Vince Lombardi

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.

Robert G. Allen

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.

Robert Green Ingersoll

As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.

Rudyard Kipling

Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

Rudy Giuliani

In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

Solon

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Steve Jobs

Expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you are doing.

Steve Jobs

Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.

Steve Jobs

Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?

Steve Jobs

It [what you choose to do] has got to be something that you're passionate about because otherwise you won't have the perseverance to see it through.

Steve Jobs

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

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.

Ross Perot

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

Ross Perot

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Ross Perot

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

Ross Perot

Never ask anyone to do what you haven't done before and wouldn't do again. That's a pretty fundamental rule in leadership... treat them like you treat yourself. Things you don't like, they don't like.

Ron Jaworski

But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.

Ron Jaworski

When I first came to the Eagles, I found a bunch of guys shell-shocked from losing. They had been through some lean years, they just didn't know how to handle the pressure. They were quiet; they kept to themselves. I said, " Hey, this has gotta change. Let's make pressure fun."

Ron Kind

I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.

Ron Kind

We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.

Roger Maris

Don't quote me on this, but if they ever manage to ban beer advertising in baseball you can kiss the national pastime goodbye.

Rush Limbaugh

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

Rush Limbaugh

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

W. H. Auden

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state.

W. H. Auden

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

Van Jones

Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.

Ty Cobb

I've got to be first. ALL the time.

Twyla Tharp

A tough manager will have realistic quotas for his employees that he keeps to himself and aggressively stretch quotas, anywhere from ten percent higher to a lot more, which he imposes on his staff. If his people miss the stretch numbers but exceed the realistic goals, he's happy. If he's a superb manager, he knows how far they can stretch without breaking.

William Allen White

From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.

William Arthur Ward

We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.

Wilferd Peterson

The best leaders are very often the best listeners. They have an open mind. They are not interested in having their own way but in finding the best way.

William Penn

There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.