Quotes About Leadership

Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.

The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.

Most people want their representatives to get something done.

Gary Bauer has done great things, ... I want to promise you again, you may agree with me, you may disagree with me, but I will do great things.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to help others with their views.

The men may be the head of the house, but the women are the neck and they can turn the head any way they want.

If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.

Angela Merkel wants to impose her policies on others. This will lead to an explosion of the European Union.

If you let too many cooks in the kitchen it could cloud your vision of what you want to do.

We're also a multi-site church, so we have other pastors on other campuses who want to read the message before the video plays on the weekend services. So it just works better for me.

When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.

I was motivated by the fact that I wasn't happy with my play in this series and felt accountable to the guys. That's enough motivation to want to play well.

Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

Be the inspiration you want to see in others

Talk to the guys that ain't doing nothing, don't talk to me. I just want eight guys out there with me who want to play.

One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.

Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way.

In poltitics you get what you deserve rather than what you want.

Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.