Quotes About Leadership

Yes, Vajpayee and Advani are very clever speakers, but that does not mean everything they say is true.

People have the wrong idea that God will forgive Reagan. They say he didn't know what he was doing. It's true he didn't know a lot of what was going on, but he was directly responsible.

When people come to write about my period of office, I would be very happy if they say that I made a contribution to finding the happy medium again for the Germans.

Generally speaking, politicians are an odd bunch. They seem to have very thick skins and genuinely don't care what people think. And charm is a very important part of the politician's armoury. I try to resist that kind of charm.

Although I am not in the thick of things when it comes to T20 cricket, but as an ODI captain, I'd like to give more stability to the players.

The reality is I have a job as a national party chair that, one, requires a thick skin. It requires me to be able to absorb the body blows so our candidates can stay above the fray.

You develop a thick skin. And once all the chips have been played, you make sure you're working on behalf of Arizona.

I think you have to have really thick skin to be in politics - which I just lack. I think I'm just too nice!

I don't think I've got a thick skin, but I've not felt particularly humiliated by the things which people think I would have felt humiliated by, such as losing my seat in 1997 and not being elected leader in 2001. In the second case, I felt relieved.

You have to have a very thick skin to run a business.

Let's be clear, I'm one of the thicker bishops in the Church of England.

Nobody has a right to call me or the prime minister a thief and a liar.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

I will not only not steal, but I will run after thieves.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can't make snap decisions. You can't have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

When cutting staff at the Pentagon, don't eliminate the thin layer that assures civilian control.

I think you can spread yourself way too thin way too easily, so when I'm trying to create, I'm trying to create ideas for projects and have a vision for other people.

I like listening to Ken Clarke. He has had guts in taking his own party on on Europe - and I am a massive pro-European - and I think he stuck with what he believed in through thick and thin even when many have opposed him.

I wouldn't want to go into mainstream, Downing Street politics, though - it's just too cut-throat. I've got quite thin skin.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.