Quotes About Leadership

They say that at that moment you didn't do this, you didn't do that, but at that time I didn't have the means. I didn't have an army to stop the killings. I'm not Moses, I can't do miracles.

If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they're little boys, they've been wanting to be President.

When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters.

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

Blot out from the page of history the names of all the great actors of his time in the drama of nations, and preserve the name of Washington, and the century would be renowned.

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

The world needs someone to look up to-like you. A national leader remarked, "There comes a time when we must take a stand-when we draw a line in the dust and say, 'Beyond this line, we do not go.'"

We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator.

Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

I've always managed by walking around. Any CEO or leader who spends the majority of his time in his office is not doing his job.

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

I'm convinced, that when you are a footballer you are a symbol. You have to be a superman in some ways, to send messages to people all the time, to the youth all the time.

Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.

If Donald Trump were elected, it would be the first time a little boy became president.

When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

By the time everyone catches up with you, you're bored.

I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.

For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.

Just look at the great Nelson Mandela. He came out of prison and saved his entire country. Some of the best people in the world have spent time in prison.

Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.

I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.