Quotes About Leadership

I'd learned a few lessons about negotiating: You're unlikely to ever get all you want; you'll probably get more of what you want if you don't issue ultimatums and leave your adversary room to maneuver; you shouldn't back your adversary into a corner, embarrass him, or humiliate him; and sometimes the easiest way to get some things done is for the top people to do them alone and in private.

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.

But Nancy is right—Presidents don't have vacations—they just have a change of scenery";

Jefferson repeatedly said that the best government was the smallest government, that "governments are not the masters of the people, but the servants of the people governed.

An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count. Speech, New York City, December 12, 1983

there is no limit to the amount of good that you can do so long as you do not care who gets the credit.

History is made by men and women of vision and courage. Tonight freedom is on the march.

than the one between the United States and the United Kingdom. Not only did Margaret Thatcher and I become personal friends and share a similar philosophy about government; the alliance

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

Officially signed off on position I took a few

For years, I've heard the question: "How could an actor be president?" I've sometimes wondered how you could be president and not be an actor.

If I could be elected president, I wanted to do what I could to bring about a spiritual revival in America.

If [the people of the world] are incapable, as some would have us believe, of self-government, then where among them do we find any who are capable of governing others?

I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Our word "lord" comes from the Old English hlaford, or "loafward," he who guarded the bread supply — and was expected to share it.

What portfolio of skills does the project manager need?' The answer to this question should be, 'The project manager must have a portfolio of skills which includes both leadership and management, together with technical skills and entrepreneurial skills.

Tal vez nuestro sistema democrático esté también a punto de suicidarse. A veces los pueblos deciden arrojarse al abismo.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

As a rule of thumb, it was always safer if the Commander-in-Chief formulated a risky plan.

Of a thousand Red Stick and allied insurgents, eight hundred were killed. [Andrew] Jackson lost forty-nine men.

Jamestown military leader John Smith threatened to kill all the women and children if the Powhatan leaders would not feed and clothe the settlers as well as provide them with land and labor.

Great, Yoda wrote the directions.