Leader Quotes

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so.

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.

We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

The problem with naming a No. 2 is you really want to throw all your weight behind the guy who is going to be the 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.

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.