Quotes About Leadership

There is no teaching to compare with example.

A despot must feel that he is the pivot of the State. The stress of his kingdom is upon him. As he is, so are his affairs.

The power of a government by discussion as an instrument of elevation plainly depends—other things being equal—on the greatness or littleness of the things to be discussed.

Nations touch at their summits.

France expects, I fear, too little from her Parliaments ever to get what she ought.

If France had more men of firm will, quiet composure, with a suspicion of enormous principle and a taste for moderate improvement: if a Whig party, in a word, were possible in France, France would be free.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Depending on the level you're at in your company, the higher you go up in rank, usually the longer you can dance.

For eight years, I've served on the Indian Affairs committee, two years as the ranking member. I've been on that committee since Day One. I will stay on the committee for as long as I'm in the Senate because of my commitment to making a difference for Alaska Natives.

As to my followers, I wish no man to follow me who is not sound at the heart in the cause of his country; and either at the head or in the ranks of these, I will always consider it my glory to be found.

When you start with Super 8, you are everything. You're the DP, the sound man, the effects guy. And what I started understanding, by working for other people, is that the best type of director is someone who rose through the ranks.

All the way through the youth ranks at Sao Paulo, I've always been the captain.

Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.

You see more women in the CFO ranks. It's an evolution.

We need more enlightened women in senior ranks, and we have to insist that companies are more diverse.

Since 1987, there are now many more of us as at the higher levels with families, so I think, as role models, we are encouraging more women to stay within banking and rise up through the ranks.

Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.

If you exclude a group of people from the boardroom or the leadership ranks of a company, the company is not as good as it could be.

America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.

I think America has a bad rap right now... and hopefully Obama will change that.

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

Where I go, rap goes. Rap is like my dog; it's like my little pet. And where I go, I lead my little pet with me.

When rap music needed to have a teacher, I became it.

The biggest challenge for a leader is harnessing the rapid pace of change in technology, as that is going to impact every industry and every organization.