Leader Quotes

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.

As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.

Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process that I've ever been involved in.

North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.

Herman Cain continues to show himself to be a leader.

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

I've always been one of the youngest guys on the team. But now I'm one of the older guys, one of the more experienced guys, and I have to be more of a leader. The guys are looking up to me, asking me questions and looking at me to step up.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

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

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.

Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

Cause I was such a novice and thank God that Sarah was as seasoned as she was because she was really a great leader in that regard in the sense that she would communicate really well with the crew.

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.

I like Hilary Clinton. I think she's - she's a fantastic leader.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.