Quotes About Leadership

The people who change the world around them rarely act from a sense of obligation. In fact, the people who act as leaders almost always act from a sense of incredible opportunity. They don't interact with the world around them because they have to. They do so because they want to.

The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you?

So instead of unilateral Bush cowboyism, we elected President Outreach, a man happy to apologize for the entirety of American policy pre-January 2009. How's that working out?

In 2008, America elected a man with no hands-on experience of anything who promptly cocooned himself within a circle of advisors with less experience of business, of the private sector, of doing than any previous administration in American history. You want change, so you vote for a bunch of guys who've never done nuthin' but sit around talking?

In 2008, America elected a man with no "hands-on experience" of anything who promptly cocooned himself within a circle of advisors with less experience of business, of the private sector, of doing than any previous administration in American history. You want "change," so you vote for a bunch of guys who've never done nuthin' but sit around talking?

Barack Obama is a symptom rather than the problem. He didn't declare himself president; America chose him.

Reagan's was a full, varied American life, of which the presidency was the mere culmination. 'The Great Communicator' was effective because what he was communicating was self-evident to all but our decayed elites: 'We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around.' [from Reagan's inaugural speech]

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

A woman wears many hats in one lifetime -- why shouldn't one of them be a crown?

I had always believed that if somebody who worked with me went home feeling like a jerk for giving their time and their genuine effort, then it was me who had failed them—and in a very personal, fundamental way.

Não era isto que eu queria de um subchefe. Se os cozinheiros não o respeitavam, eu dizer-lhes que o tipo os podia despedir não ia criar esse respeito.

A ideia era contratar para a minha equipa a maior quantidade possível de ajudantes leais – rapazes e raparigas que respondessem diretamente perante mim, em quem pudesse confiar para me protegerem a retaguarda – antes que o gerente da cozinha me impingisse os tipos dele, malta que não me diria nada se o meu cabelo estivesse a arder, e muito menos se havia alguém à minha espera com a faca pronta.

next thing you know, the Russian tanks are rolling through the suburbs, misusing your womenfolk, and Mr Restaurant Genius is holed up in the bunker thinking about eating his gun.

England's worst boss? I don't think so. England's worst boss is the boss who doesn't give a fuck, someone who's wasting his employees' time, challenging them to do nothing more ambitious than show up.

The army is at once the worst place for egoists, and the best.

A company commander,' said Dicky Umfraville, when we met later that year, 'needs the qualifications of a ringmaster in a first-class circus, and a nanny in a large family.

Changing an organization, a company, a country—or a world—begins with the simple step of changing yourself.

Leaders are those individuals who live by empowering beliefs and teach others to tap their full capabilities by shifting the beliefs that have been limiting them.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. —JACK KEROUAC

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. —MARCUS AURELIUS

Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Remember this: anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.