Leadership Quotes

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

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.

In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

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.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.

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

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.

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.

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.

I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.

The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.