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Quotes About Leadership

The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.
~ John Heartfield
I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.
~ John Legend
I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.
~ John Legend
When did one man ever civilize a people?
~ John Lothrop Motley
With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.
~ John McGraw
It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.
~ John Toshack
In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man uncapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow themselves to be the deputies of Providence.
~ Jonathan Swift
There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.
~ Jonathan Swift
I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.
~ Jose Mourinho
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
~ Joseph Barbera
Power tempts even the best of men to take liberties with the truth.
~ Joseph Sobran
A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.
~ Josephine Tey
The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.
~ Joshua Reynolds
Donald Trump is man of action.
~ Kellyanne Conway
In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.
~ Ken Harrelson
There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.
~ Kobe Bryant
The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.
~ Leigh Steinberg
The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Directing is genderless. The only thing...I love men.
~ Lori Petty
Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.
~ Luc de Clapiers
The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.
~ Lyman Bryson
A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero