Quotes About Leadership

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

I will restore a government based on principle and justice.

In the Navy, the captain doesn't leave the bridge when the ship is in distress. It's a pretty basic leadership principle.

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.

The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.

We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle.

Franklin Roosevelt didn't poll, because he had great political instincts. Now we have polls; we don't need instincts. But is that a change in principle? Is it a change in principle that we use a Xerox instead of carbon paper? It's of the same order of magnitude.

As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.

We must face facts. I have made that my guiding principle in office.

I want a group of Green MPs who will demonstrate to Canadians that it's possible to be respectful, ethical, hard working and actually stick to principle.

There is a group dynamic and a team behaves in principle like a team of horses: there are always leaders.

As the leader of the nation, I say in behalf of the Filipino people to the world: we are strong and principled believers in democracy.

Leaders are not dogmatic. They are principled and know that change is never easy, but when it's necessary, they must lead.

Jeremy Corbyn is a principled Labour man.

She is smart. She is principled. She is tough, and she is ready. Hillary is the single most experienced and prepared person who has ever run for president.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

We should be led by principles and morals and not by men.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.