Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Sarah Palin

We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.

Samuel Pepys

But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.

Samuel Smiles

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

William Feather

A good man likes a hard boss. I don't mean a nagging boss or a grouchy boss. I mean a boss who insists on things being done right and on time; a boss who is watching things closely enough so that he knows a good job from a poor one. Nothing is more discouraging to a good man than a boss who is not on the job, and who does not know whether things are going well or badly.

Richard M. Nixon

Unpredictability is the greatest asset a leader can have.

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.

Richard Gere

I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.

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

Robert Dale Owen

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

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

Vance Havner

Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.

Richard Dawkins

Leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods ... express a preference for "natural" methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.

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.

Robert Teeter

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.

Robert Teeter

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.

Robert Townsend

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.

Robert Townsend

If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.

Robert Townsend

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.

Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity.

Virgil

The leader of the deed was a woman. -Dux femina facti

Warren Brown

I don't think either team can win it.

Walter Cronkite

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

William Blum

The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al. ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden.

Werner Erhard

While most managers spend their time attempting to predict the future accurately - and while that's valuable - the best managers are able to generate a future which was not going to happen otherwise - that is, a future which was not predictable.

Werner Erhard

Instead of looking for a great leader, we are in an era where each of us needs to find the great leader within ourselves.

Werner Herzog

I like to direct landscapes just as I like to direct actors and animals.

Salman Khurshid

We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.

Wangari Maathai

In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.

Virginia Foxx

Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.