Quotes About Leadership

Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.

This alpha dog is not going to take it lying down next time.

Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

What the people out there are calling for is honesty which has been missing for quite some time now. We are tired of all the deceit and incompetence of this government.

I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.

Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time

If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.

The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

Bill Russell was my favorite player of all-time.

Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.

. . . top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people . . .

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

You'll never make America great again, [Donald] Trump, but you can extend her time.

Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

Great leaders have to know when to divide that line from being selfless to being selfish, and he perfectly chose the time to be selfish and made plays.

It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!