Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Powell

The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.

Chuck Todd

As soon as a Democrat or a liberal organization opens their mouth and says "We want to see this," it's going to go over the heads. And same way on the abortion debate, if they want to make a change, it is not going to come from a Republican, it's going to have to come from a Democrat.

Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 foundations and individual donors whose priorities don't align with my organization's.

Marcus Buckingham

Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.

Marcus Buckingham

The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.

Michael Bloomberg

The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations.

Michele Bachmann

We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly is not the church.

Max Lucado

God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.

Maurice Strong

I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Billy Crystal

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

Bobby Fischer

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

Ludwig von Mises

If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.

Louis Graham

Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way.

Mark Cox

That shot he's got to obliterate from his mind a little bit.

Augusten Burroughs

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

Augusten Burroughs

You manufacture beauty with your mind

Ben Folds

I've gotten to the point where I realize that I need to tell my truth in music and not walk around blabbing my mind.

Jason Behr

Christopher Reeve will always be Superman in my mind.

Arthur C. Clarke

In all the universe there is nothing more precious than mind.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

Dean Koontz

...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.