Quotes About Leadership

He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. -- On Calvin Coolidge

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.

Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else.

we have built a reward structure to praise those students who can sit in classrooms better than anyone else. We let them run our planet. However,

The university has become the multiversity and the nature of the presidency has followed this change…. The president of the multiversity is leader, educator, wielder of power, pump; he is also officeholder, caretaker, inheritor, consensus seeker, persuader, bottleneck. But he is mostly a mediator.

The end is just another beginning when a Mother is in charge of the world.

Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly.

The mistake a lot of politicians make is forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Morale is more important than weapons!

Un ignorante con poder es una fatalidad.

Just 2 percent of the world's population and 5 percent of white people in the U.S. have blond hair, but 35 percent of female U.S. senators and 48 percent of female CEOs at S&P 500 companies are

The great commander knows that in order to win one needs to know the remote and also the immediate reasons for the war, the capacities of the soldiers, which is to say the social and political make-up of the states, determining the variety, the quality and the character of the men.

if Richard Nixon is not sincere, he is the most dangerous man in America.

But I had to look at something else beyond the man—the people who surrounded him—and I felt that Kennedy was surrounded by better people. It was on that basis that I felt that Kennedy would make the best president.

Resources are what he uses to do it, processes are how he does it, and priorities are why he does it.

Putin himself has asserted in biographical interviews that one of his main skills is to get people—in this case the Russian people, his audience(s)—to see him as what they want him to be, not what he really is.

Putin learned from reading the William King and David Cleland textbook in the 1980s and 1990s, planning for uncertainty is the most important element of strategy.

Why do politicians have one more brain cell than horses do?" Riddles were her favorites, he guessed. He said that he didn't know why. "So they won't shit on the street during parades." He

It is a fool who believes politicians will end the problems and poverty they have created in the first place. 

Five personalities were being selected to serve in a public office: a politician, a philanthropist, a doctor, a teacher and a farmer. The first four know their plans in life while the last one is living without many plans. The farmer won by election. It is because the farmer wants to do more than what others have already done.

Everyone wants to be a good example to everybody. If you can't be one, at least try not to be a disgrace to humanity.

Unfold your inner strength by setting a good example to others. Spread the good works in anyway possible.