Quotes About Leadership

One cannot govern with 'buts'.

General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made.

The secret is to be prepared, to draw on the strengths of the people around you, and most importantly, to instill confidence that your team will step up and find a solution.

Be confident enough to encourage confidence in others.

Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country.

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence

Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

One of the ways to make sure policies are more transparent and to help restore people's confidence in politicians... is to ensure renewal at the highest level of office.

Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.

People will not follow a leader who does not have confidence in himself.

Americans are responsible not only for really starting a lot of things in a lot of countries, but also for giving people the confidence to do things they might never have thought to do.

A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim.

Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.

The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.

It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.

There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.

Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.

I do think that the Republican Party is in a crisis right now, a crisis of confidence about who we are.

We still go out and elect people who we think are going to govern and better our interests. So we may not have the same confidence in the people we elect, but we still go out and elect them.

A woman's confidence separates the men from the boys.

The person who said that it is lonely at top has no idea what the view looks like from above. ~ Aarush Kashyap

From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In the affection and confidence of the people, I am proud to say, I have a great share.

Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself.

Live with compassion, work with confidence, and create opportunities for others to conquer the world.