Quotes About Leadership

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.

Now is the time to move this country forward.

There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend.

For me as leader my time is nearly over but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream will never die.

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.

People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.

Don't forget, I'm a dragon, I can fly, in the shortest amount of time, I'll bring all my members with me and we'll come to your side.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

There comes a point in the game where you gotta make a play or you gotta do something to get your team over the hump, and when that time comes you gotta be able to do it.

If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

If you're a leader, it's important to set aside time to quiet yourself and listen for God's direction.

We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

There's no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached.

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.

Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.

And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.