Quotes About Leadership

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.

My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

A politician in this country must be the man of a party. I would fain be the man of my whole country.

Be a great speaker, become a leader.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel.

every fork in the road Nasser went left, Al-Sadat went right, and Mubarak says, "Don't move.

Nasser's coup got rid of everything that was good in Egypt, and slowly replaced everything that was bad with something much worse.

Nasser taught the Egyptians to be cowards, opportunists, and hypocrites.

I am a leader, therefore I lead; I am an executive, therefore I execute; I am a human being, therefore I care.

Anyone can copy your strategy, but no one can duplicate your culture!

Change Management seems to result in lots of management and little change. What I'm really looking for is Change Leadership!~ a very frustrated CEO

Don't use fancy words to make things sound better than they are or try to impress people. Build your breakthrough objectives using straight, clear, everyday language that your employees will understand.

We tend to think we can separate strategy from culture, but we fail to notice that in most organizations strategic thinking is deeply colored by tacit assumptions about who they are and what their mission is. ~ Edgar Schein, professor MIT Sloan School of Management

He had a good heart, he wanted to help with the cattle work, he thought he was Head of Ranch Security, but he wasn't very smart and never understood why the cowboys were mad at him all the time." (regarding the original Hank the Cowdog)

One riot, one cowdog.

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

If individuals do not occupy their legitimate position, then it will be occupied by a god or a king or a coalition of interest groups. If citizens do not exercise the powers confered by their legitimacy, others will do so. (I - The Great Leap Backwards)

He who burns with ambition to become aedile, tribune, praetor, consul, dictator, cries out that he loves his country and he loves only himself.

the marketplace is capable only of calculating exclusive costs; that is; excluding all possible costs that interfere with profit. Leadership of society requires the calculation of inclusive costs. To invoke the marketplace, as if calling upon the Holy Spirit, is to limit ourselves to the narrow and short-term interests of exclusion. (IV - From Managers and Speculators to Growth)

Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.