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Quotes About Leadership

I do not believe that the children of presidents or vice-presidents should be assigned to combat zones. They have no place there.
~ John Eisenhower
Miliband failed us, his Labour supporters. And Labour will now, because of him, be in a disaster zone for a long time.
~ Melvyn Bragg
Serving 27 million Texans spread across 254 counties and two time zones isn't a job for those who require a lot of sleep.
~ Don Willett
I was a senior leader within the Movement for Democratic Change. I had a farm that was under the Zimbabwean Investment Center, which gave it special protection, because I had an external partner through the export processing zone.
~ Roy Bennett
It's my job... to push people out of their comfort zones. But we got to have a reason to do it. We don't do it gratuitously.
~ Nancy Dubuc
Germany benefits the most from the European Union because Germany is, by far, the biggest exporter into the Euro Zone, and therefore, it benefits. And one who benefits the most must take the biggest responsibility.
~ Joe Kaeser
Leaders who can push themselves beyond their comfort zones and understand how to harness the power of reverse innovation have the chance to become the next great visionaries.
~ Dinesh Paliwal
I have to finish 'Behen Hogi Terim' and then get right into that zone to seriously start preparing for it. It is a huge responsibility to play Netaji.
~ Rajkummar Rao
Sometimes I'm in that timeout, and I say, 'Let's go a possession of zone,' and they're like, 'Yeah, let's do it,' and that shows that they're confident enough to roll with whatever we're doing. And sometimes they're like, 'No, no, no, no.' They don't want a possession to get away from them, possibly.
~ Nick Nurse
Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.
~ Jim Fowler
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion 20 years later.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
~ William Van Home
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
~ Chinese proverb
Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.
~ Pope Leo X
When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.
~ Herbert Hoover
Go and wake up your cook.
~ Arabian Proverb
If you want something done right, get someone else to do it.
~ Marion Giacomini
I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.
~ Confucius
People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
~ Gail Sheehy
But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.
~ Goethe
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
~ Cicero
The office of the president is such a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
~ Jimmy Breslin