Quotes About Leadership

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great.

Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.

Voters want a fraud they can believe in.

The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?

It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want. This captures a lot of what Abraham Lincoln did.

I said you were a man of peace. I want you to know I took immense crap for that.

[Eva Braun] always said, "you're the Führer, you can do whatever you want to do."

It is hard sometimes to get the Congress to do what you want to do and you have to keep working at it.

For all the women - especially the young women, who put your faith in me - I want you to know that nothing has made me prouder than to be your champion.

Win or lose, people know what you want to do.

You always have to be available for people, and you have to be clearly stating what you want to see, in so many disciplines, all at the same time.

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.

And I want you to know that I have had the greatest support from President Bateman. I could coach as long as I want to and never felt any pressure to reach a decision.

I do have certain feelings. My feeling is that whoever is in charge, I want him out.

If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

I think if I weren't married to [Barack Obama], I'd want him to be in there.

You can't make the people do what you want them to do. You've got to get everybody to see what you seein' or you gonna be a damn fool.

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

Right now my favorite thing is working to recall our absolute shitbag of a governor. He's been screwing up my state for more than a year. I want him out.

Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement