Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robbie Fowler

After spending so much money Liverpool were a lot further behind the leaders when Houllier left than before he arrived

Most of the European leaders look at themselves as having to follow the United States, because if the US opposes them, there will be a regime change.

Michael Emerson

Absolutely, although every congregation will say, you know, every worship leader will say it's vital. It's very important, but again these are, you know, these are different cultural styles.

The strongest leaders do not command, they empower

Rajon Rondo

Can't pick and choose when you're gonna be a leader. If you're gonna be it - gotta do it every day.

Michael Porter

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

Michael Pollan

The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.

Michael Pollan

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around.

Seth Godin

If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

Seth Godin

Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it." -

Seth Godin

Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.

Seth Godin

If you want to be a leader, go lead

Seth Godin

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

John P. Kotter

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

John P. Kotter

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.

Theodore Hesburgh

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Max de Pree

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

Max de Pree

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Plato

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

Plato

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

Lance Morrow

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

Peter Drucker

The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.

Terry Semel

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

John Wooden

Many leaders don't listen, and it is one of the greatest methods we have of learning. You need to listen to those under your supervision and to those who are above you.

Merlin Olsen

I do not believe that there is any secret or single formula for success, but there are common threads of thought and action that characterize the successful people that I have been fortunate enough to know and observe. I do know, from my own experience, that our chance of succeeding is much greater when we organize and take charge of our lives. When we are willing to make decisions, we aggressively pursue those things in life that are important to us.

Mary Kay Ash

Leaders teach. They motivate. They care. Leaders make sure that the way to success is always broad enough and straight enough for others to follow.

Mary Kay Ash

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Oscar Wilde

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

Oscar Wilde

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

Ma Huateng

The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

Louis Farrakhan

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

Michael Scheuer

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.