Quotes About Leadership

This is a step forward. You don't need to tolerate people who don't respect you. And you don't need to speak with everyone who has a grievance. You aren't Queen Daleina. You Queen Cajara, and you'll do things your way.

Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.

You see, if you are 30 years ahead of your time, you will always have difficulty speaking with the bosses in the industry. They are too conservative.

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

I believe 2016 is the Year of the Woman and now more than ever, it is our time to accomplish anything and everything.

Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.

I think maybe it is about time for a governor who has created jobs, who's managed a budget, who's led and inspired large organizations, who listens well, and who can drive an agenda

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.

I think [Dalai Lama]is far and away the most solid, deep-thinking, far-sighted politician I've met, and I've been a journalist for 26 years for Time magazine, so I've met a lot of politicians.

Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me.

It used to be you rose up through the ranks, and by the time you got a job as a boss, you had done the work of everybody beneath you.

Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.