Quotes About Leadership

If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Gwen Goodnight

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

My daughters depend on me for a lot more than food, clothing and shelter. They depend on me as an example of how to go on.

I've just got to let my teammates know in practice, without even telling them, that I don't think I'm ahead of anybody.

Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it's just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don't need more money.

I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft.

I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic than that. But everything was on sale.

I never dreamed about one day becoming Secretary of State. It's not that I was modest; it's just that I had never seen a Secretary of State in a skirt.

We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action.

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

Well understand this! If you want to join our sales team; I don't need pillion riders; I need high drivers who grasp the handle-bars.

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.

Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

And every Master has likewise had the same message: What I am, you are. What I can do, you can do. These things, and more, shall you also do.

Congressmen are like diapers - You need to change them often, and for the same reason

You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.

You've got to take risks if you're going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission.

The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.

Mary Decker Slaney, the world greatest front runner, I shouldn't be surprised to see her at the front