Leadership Quotes

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.