Leaders Quotes

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.

I've known entrepreneurs who were not great salespeople, or didn't know how to code, or were not particularly charismatic leaders. But I don't know of any entrepreneurs who have achieved any level of success without persistence and determination.

The service leaders hire one out of 50 applicants, sometimes one out of 100, but they're very, very careful. You can't afford not to be extremely choosy when you hire.

Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.

Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

Leaders grasp nettles.

It is to be hoped that the leaders of this movement will place the nation above the party.

We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders.

So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

Where are the Muslim people's sponsors? Where are its kings? Where are its leaders? The Muslim people is calling upon you, Jerusalem is appealing to you, will anyone answer?

Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.

Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders.

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

Now, national conventions are largely an excuse for companies and party leaders to throw parties for delegates to attend, to network and have a good time.

The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.

But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.

I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.

Social activism has gone mainstream. A new generation of philanthropic leaders such as Bill and Melinda Gates, and Bono are providing inspiration, guidance, and billions of dollars through their global foundations.

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.

Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.

Do I want someone to get more hits than me? No. Do I want someone to hit more home runs than me? No. Do I want someone to have more RBI than me? No. I get a kick out of seeing the all-time leaders and my name's on top of every one, with the exception of strikeouts. I get a kick out of that.

Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.

We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.

The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections.

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.

I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier.

At Girl Scouts, we create leaders.

I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.

Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.' You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff.

Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.

I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me. I think that artists are the leaders of the world because they do not have a connection to the industrial complex, the day-to-day short-term survival that most people are involved with.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.

Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

Leaders should not just talk about - but walk the walk of - fiscal conservatism.

If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.

Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.

Always, in every human action, there are leaders.

Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.

The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.

We don't have a lot of Reagan-type leaders in our party. Remember Ronald Reagan Democrats? I want a Republican that can attract Democrats.

Good leaders must first become good servants.

When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.

I like guts in my leaders.

What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.