Quotes About Leadership

Ripple Labs CEO

You call the wolf, you get the pack.

Él que menos habla es el más chingón. He who speaks least has the most power.

At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.

What worked, GAO found, was strong leadership commitment, investment in the capacity needed to get the job done, careful monitoring of results, and a commitment to stay with the problems until they were solved. Investment in government's capacity, and careful attention to key details, demonstrated that failure is not the only option. But success builds on people power.

Decentralized control is based on trust. This trust must be present both hierarchically and laterally. Subordinates must trust their superiors, and superiors must trust their subordinates.

Leadership is action, not position.

She added, "Washington is the city of the soft heads and the chicken hearts.

It may be that only when xenophobia stops working as an election winner will the way be cleared for a return to bipartisanship

Those who hold power and influence in government either have limited interest in implementation or, in particular in the case of the prime minister and his most senior advisors, cannot find time in their busy agenda to think about implementation. They all too often assume that the machinery of government will do as it is told.

Government is good at generating ideas. In

Canadians believe that MPs do a better job pursuing the interest of their political parties than of those they represent,

One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one's fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?

Always let your inner light shine. By doing so, you not only light a path for yourself, but also light a way for others.

Seek to be served, and you become a servant. Seek to serve others, and you become a master.

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

Let every man be master of his time.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It's unsustainable.

Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.