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Quotes About Leadership

Women are warlike too.
~ Sophocles
È impossibile conoscere a fondo anima, pensiero, intendimento di un uomo, prima che abbia dato pubblica prova di sé nell'esercizio del potere, secondo le leggi.
~ Sophocles
A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
If you take a life, I will take yours. Put me in charge, I will fix it.
~ Gene Simmons
1992 was the worst year of my life, to watch my dad lose. It was a painful experience. Yet when I became president, it was so much easier to be president.
~ George W. Bush
I'm just beginning to live the next chapter of my life. In other words, politics - being governor and president - is not the end of my life. It's a chapter.
~ George W. Bush
I'm comfortable with how I lived my life as the president.
~ George W. Bush
In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.
~ Gloria Swanson
You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.
~ Graeme Samuel
Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.
~ Henri Nouwen
The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.
~ Herbert Hoover
I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.
~ Hillary Clinton
Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
~ Ilana Mercer
Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
~ Irving Azoff
Theodore Roosevelt crafted a masterpiece of service. He served people in every aspect of his life. His legacy was transformational, encompassing his family, his nation and the world.
~ James M Strock
My books arose from my own experience, when I sought guidance in practical leadership in my career. In sum, I strive to write the kind of book that I would find valuable in my own life.
~ James M Strock
Being the leader means you have to make life or death decisions sometimes.
~ James Patterson
Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.
~ Jean Ingelow
I never want to have that on my shoulders - I never want to be number one on the call sheet. That's a life that I don't want. I mean, I'm not ducking the responsibility.
~ Jeffrey Tambor
Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person!
~ Jerry Brown
It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.
~ Jerry Greenfield