Leadership Quotes

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.

Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

President Bush offers the American people an optimistic vision and a clear choice in November. The President has provided steady leadership in remarkably changing times. He knows exactly where he wants to lead this country, and he has complete confidence in the American people.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

Strong convictions precede great actions.

I think that if Republicans are given the reins of leadership in the House or Senate or both, we will have to govern in a way - at least put forward solutions whether or not the president goes along with them or not, that deal with these long-term challenges.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.'

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.