Leader Quotes

• Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Pleasant
  • Purchasing
  • Warlike

• Too many people are confusing charisma with autocrat, fat cat. So I think we have to be a little more sophisticated when we hold up or tear down these stereotypes. Whether we call it charisma or not, a leader cannot be self-effacing to the point of being wimpy.

  

  Noel Tichy
  • Leader
  • Stereotypes
  • Charisma

• Trying to be a leader, you've got to be really sure of what you're doing and you've got to guide people the right way.

  

  Genndy Tartakovsky
  • People
  • Doing
  • Really

• At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of economics, put it, "To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind... is to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world." Because knowledge is dispersed, power must be as well.

  

  George Gilder
  • Mind
  • Real
  • School

• The quarterback is the leader of the team and the quarterback is the one that has the ball in his hands every single play.

  

  Andy Dalton
  • Play
  • Leader
  • Quarterback

• Critics have stepped up their attacks on the President for authorizing the National Security Agency to listen to international communications of known al Qaeda members or affiliated terrorists during a time of war. The American people expect their leaders to stay a step ahead of the enemy, and the National Security Agency authorization is a critical tool in the War on Terror that saves lives and protects civil liberties at the same time.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • People
  • War
  • Enemy

• I really feel that the Church leaders have blood on their hands. I feel that there are gay Mormons who have committed suicide or whose lives have been destroyed because of the attitude of the Church.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Church
  • Gay
  • Attitude

• Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Work
  • Value
  • Values

• People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Leader
  • Celebrity

• I don't expect to be a ‘leader’ with this thing. I'd rather be a builder. I'd like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • World
  • Vision
  • Goal

• When leaders behave consistently with the expectations of customers, they are doing things inside their organization that deliver value outside.

  

  Dave Ulrich
  • Organization
  • Expectations
  • Behave

• I think, perhaps, it would be useful if I repeat again to you the words which I used in the first speech when I became leader of our party in 1911...“No government of which I am a member will ever be a government of reaction...” That was my view then and it is my view today, and if I thought the Unionist Party was or would ever become a party of that kind I would not be a member of it.

  

  Bonar Law
  • Party
  • Government
  • Speech

• The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans and empty quacks.

  

  William James
  • People
  • Men
  • War

• I don't know a lot about politics but I have great trust in him as leader.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • Trust
  • Politics
  • Leader

• Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Political
  • Leader
  • Class

• Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Leader
  • Brave
  • Truthful

• I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which preceded the firing of that gun at Sumter. Politicians or far-sighted leaders on both sides knew what was coming. And it is they who have written histories of the war. But to the easy-going millions, busied with their farms or shops, the onrushing disaster was as inexplicable as an earthquake. Their protest arose from sea to sea like the clamor of a gigantic hive of frightened bees.

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • People
  • Disaster
  • Protest

• Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.

  

  Michael Horton
  • Excellence
  • Program
  • Laziness

• What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.

  

  William Blum
  • People
  • Political
  • Religious

• The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his followers.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Responsibility
  • Successful
  • Mistakes

• If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves."

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Honor
  • Aim

• I've been a leader practically my whole life. I don't know what it is to follow.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Life
  • Leader

• I call for the need of world leaders to address climate change and reduce the increasing risk of disasters- and world leaders must include mayors, townships and community leaders.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Community
  • Risk

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