Famous Quotes & Sayings

Li Peng

Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.

Lee Iacocca

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Lee Iacocca

Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.

Lee Iacocca

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

Lee Iacocca

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

Larry Bird

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

L. Ron Hubbard

In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable.

Leslie Nielsen

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.

Lady Gaga

If I can be a leader, I will.

Lewis Grizzard

Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Lewis H. Lapham

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Lewis H. Lapham

Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lewis H. Lapham

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

Lewis Carroll

You can't be that good; you work for me.

Leonard Baskin

I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.

Joseph Stiglitz

They [political leaders ] thought the only problem was the banking system, and if they fixed the banking system, all would be fine. But the banking system and the mortgage problem were symptomatic of some deeper problems, and evidently they still haven't recognized those deeper problems.

Joseph Heller

Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.

Otto Schily

We cannot allow violence from militant activists to dictate where and how democratically elected state leaders hold their meetings.

Oswald Spengler

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

Oscar Wilde

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Kapil Dev

Sourav is a great captain and we should be proud of such a leader.

Kamisese Mara

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

I am my own woman…and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family’s needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person’s particular need is met, it’s the best leadership training you can have.

Kanye West

I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.

Junior Seau

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it... With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. ... The modern governor, owing to the fact that he addresses crowds, is compelled to be a moralist, and to present his acts as bound up with a system of morality.

Maria Shriver

you are the leader you've been looking for

Paul Keating

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

Paul Keating

We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us.

Paul Kagame

It is the population which decides when it's time for a leader to leave, not foreign powers.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Men are loyal when you lead from the front.

Ovid

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Ovid

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.