Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helene D. Gayle

A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.

George Ryan

without his leadership we might not be here this afternoon.

Peter Chernin

We need to be in a leadership position about protecting minors.

Daley Thompson

If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

David Cameron

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

David Letterman

The mayor of Sochi is now saying that there are no gay people in Sochi. So the only thing that is flaming over there now is the Olympic torch.

David Letterman

Here's a woman, a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy. And talk about guts - she would come out here and sit in this chair and say some things that were unbelievable - where you would have to swallow pretty hard... but it was hilarious... the force of her comedy was overpowering.

David Gergen

At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

David Ogilvy

Leaders grasp nettles.

David Ogilvy

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

David Ogilvy

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

Darrell Royal

He looks like he needs worming.

Daisaku Ikeda

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

Condoleezza Rice

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

Condoleezza Rice

Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

Condoleezza Rice

You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Donna Karan

I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.

Andre Maurois

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

Cleopatra

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

Dan Simmons

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

Dan Fouts

So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.

Dan Gable

There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.

Cyril Falls

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Cornelius Nepos

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.

We think the two-year time period provides the stable leadership that we need to really do this the right way.

Orson Scott Card

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish and nothing more.

Plato

Those who seek power are not worthy of that power.

Karch Kiraly

My general rule, which I have followed throughout my coaching career, is that everyone doesn't necessarily get treated the same way, because I'm not sure that's possible. But everyone has to be treated fairly. Moreover, they have to know and trust that they will be treated fairly. Dennis Green, NFL Coach There's nothing worse than the feeling of wishing you had another chance at a play because you weren't ready. Every athlete has those feelings to mull over, and over, and over... Don't even expose yourself to the possibility of being caught off-guard.