Leadership Quotes

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.

Example is leadership.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

Leadership is about being a servant first.

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

Leadership is influence.

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.