Leadership Quotes

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

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.