Famous Quotes & Sayings

George R. R. Martin

Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple...Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with.... My people who are trying to rule don't have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn't make you a wise king.

George R. R. Martin

Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

Garry Wills

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

Garry Wills

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.

Gail Devers

It is so important for young girls to be fit. I think sports is the key to success, because the challenges you face in sports prepare you for the rest of your life.

Gail Devers

You have to find that love within yourself. If you love yourself, you feel good about yourself, and sports help you feel good about yourself.

Gail Sheehy

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

Fernand Braudel

Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.

Ferdinand Foch

The unknown is the governing principle of war.

Henry Mintzberg

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

Henry Mintzberg

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

Henry Mintzberg

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

Henry Miller

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

George Eliot

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

George Horace Lorimer

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Christie Hefner

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

He's the man we look for. He's our go-to-guy for leadership and scoring.

Doug Wilson

He's an important part of this team in the present and the future, not only with his skating and physical presence, but he's taken on a leadership role,

Friedrich Nietzsche

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Jeb Bush

I think this transition to a candidacy will allow me to be more direct about my advocacy of the leadership skills necessary for the next president to fix a few things, and as a candidate, contrary to someone who has been listening and learning along the way, I'll offer up alternatives to the path we're on as well, so I'll be more specific on policy.

Jeb Bush

I kind of know what my job is, it's to develop a message that's hopeful and optimistic about the future of the country, to develop ideas that will give people a sense that they can lift up, and to tell them about my leadership skills to make it so.

Jeb Bush

Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.

Jeb Bush

What we need is new leadership that takes conservative principles and applies them so that people can rise up.

Jeb Bush

If you apply conservative principles and you stick with it, and you have the leadership skills to bring people toward the cause, you can move the needle on these things, i reject the notion that we can't solve problems, that the gridlock is too enormous to forge consensus. It requires some creativity to get to a win for everybody.

Jeff Bezos

The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

George Will

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

George Will

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

George Sand

It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.

George S. Patton

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

George S. Patton

Remember praise is more valuable than blame.

George S. Patton

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.