Leader Quotes

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.

There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.

Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door.