Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Tapscott

Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.

Dale Carnegie

Good leaders are scarce; so I'm following myself.

Corazon Aquino

The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.

Colin Powell

Trust is the essence of Leadership.

Colin Powell

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Dan Jenkins

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

Donald Trump

Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders.

Abu Bakar Bashir

But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.

Amy Poehler

A bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.

Albert Einstein

Manager solves problems, leader prevents them.

Drew Gilpin Faust

A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.

Doug Stanhope

What if I don't want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own. I don't want to be led.

Dwight L. Moody

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

Douglas Wilder

During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton.

Derek Sivers

There is no movement without the first follower. See, we are told that we all need to be leaders but that would be ineffective. The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others how to follow.

Chuck Knox

One of the most important qualities for any young athlete is the ability to believe in oneself. If you have confidence in yourself, in your teammates and your coach, you will succeed.

Chuck Hagel

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

Andrew Carnegie

Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors......Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better factory.

Anna Deavere Smith

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

Anita Dunn

Once again, the vice president has acknowledged that he dares to follow where Bill Bradley has boldly led. ... The only consistency in Al Gore's positions is that he has consistently been less willing to lead with bold proposals of his own, but consistently followed in the footsteps of other leaders.

Daniel Inouye

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

Daniel Kahneman

The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.

Daniel Kahneman

We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.

D. H. Lawrence

While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

Anne M. Mulcahy

An important mark of a good leader [is] to know you don’t know it all and never will.

Albert Camus

Freedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.

Chuck Palahniuk

Let me be the ring leader in your guilt gang-bang.

Andy Stanley

Don’t strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

Andy Stanley

Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.

Andy Stanley

Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.

Andy Stanley

Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.

Andy Stanley

The greatest thing you do as a leader may not be what you do as a leader but who watches you do what you do.

Andy Stanley

Where there is no uncertainty, there is no longer the need for leadership. The greater the uncertainty, the greater the need for leadership. Your capacity as a leader will be determined by how well you learn to deal with uncertainty.