Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Rudd

Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the few or the many.

Kelly Ayotte

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

Kelley Armstrong

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.

Kerry Packer

He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)

Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are lead by trifles.

John Adams

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Jack Welch

If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them

Jack Welch

I am often asked if leaders are born or made. The answer, of course, is both. Some characteristics, like IQ and energy, seem to come with the package. On the other hand, you learn some leadership skills, like self-confidence, at your mother's knee, and at school, in academics and sports. And you learn others at work-trying something, getting it wrong and learning from it, or getting it right and gaining the self-confidence to do it again, only better.

Jack Welch

The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses.

Jack Welch

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

Jack Welch

No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

Jack Welch

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

Jack Welch

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Jack Welch

A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization, not as it is, but as it should be

Harvey Mackay

It all comes down to this: If you want one year of happiness, grow grain If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people

Harvey Mackay

Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders.

Henry Rollins

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

Henry A. Kissinger

Far too often, the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.

Henry A. Kissinger

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Henry A. Kissinger

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Henry A. Kissinger

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Helen Hunt

A small step in a good direction.

Henry George

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Henry Blodget

The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader to do that. The definition of strong leadership is to make decisions that are unpopular, but are nevertheless sound.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.

Mahatma Gandhi

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

Mahatma Gandhi

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Malcolm Gladwell

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

John C. Maxwell

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

John C. Maxwell

Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.

John C. Maxwell

Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.