Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
~By William J. Wilson ~
For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.
~By John Ensign ~
Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.
~By Kofi Annan ~
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
~By Marguerite Young ~
I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
~By Desmond Tutu ~
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.
~By David Duke ~
This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.
~By Charlie Gonzalez ~
Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?
~By John Amery ~
As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.
~By Ron Kind ~
Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.
~By Horst Koehler ~
There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year.
~By Norman Granz ~
I want our leaders to lead our country to greatness, but President Obama and his misguided policies and ideology have really fundamentally changed our country in the wrong way, more so than any president in our history.
~By Ben Quayle ~
As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.
~By Bob Schaffer ~
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders.
~By Rodney Alexander ~
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~
In my time, we served with noble and ethical leaders: Gerry Ford, Bob Michael, John Rhodes, men of impeccable honesty. We didn't have anybody locked up for a violation of ethics.
~By Pete McCloskey ~
For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.
~By Andrew Shue ~
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
~By Mwai Kibaki ~
One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
~By Tim Pawlenty ~
I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.
~By John Philip Sousa ~
Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.
~By Franz von Papen ~
I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.
~By Michael Scheuer ~
The best thing about this band is I'm the leader!
~By Keith Emerson ~
It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen.
~By Johnny Damon ~
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
~By James H. Boren ~
There is no credible evidence of the current exceptional global warming trumpeted by the IPCC. The IPCC is no longer behaving as an investigative scientific organization or pretending to be one. Their leaders betrayed the trust of the world community.
~By Grant Miles ~
For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.
~By Johnny Vegas ~
Leadership demands that we make tough choices.
~By Alan Autry ~
It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
~By Omar Bongo ~
The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.
~By John Olver ~
So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.
~By Kenneth Baker ~
What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer.
~By Shane MacGowan ~
Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.
~By Bill Owens ~
Grown men do not need leaders.
~By Edward Abbey ~
Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
~By Bo Bennett ~
When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.
~By Joss Whedon ~
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.
~By W. Averell Harriman ~
Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.
~By Bill Bradley ~
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.
~By Robert Reich ~
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
~By James Humes ~
Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.
~By Rainn Wilson ~
I believe that it is irresponsible, it is basically part of the crisis of leadership in D.C. to not look at Social Security and understand that there has got to be a solution posed. We've got to take a look at it and make sure that we create a solution so our seniors aren't left out in the cold.
~By Joe Miller ~
Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
~By Charles Evers ~
Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.
~By John Conyers ~
Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.
~By Ken Mehlman ~
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
~By John Buchan ~
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days.
~By Shelby Foote ~
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
~By Tadao Ando ~
We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
~By Mark Skousen ~
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.
~By Tim Bishop ~
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
~By Andrew Young ~
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.
~By Sherrod Brown ~
This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.
~By Robert Teeter ~
Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
~By Jean Vanier ~
We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.
~By George W. Bush ~
If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.
~By George Soros ~
I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
~By Paul Ryan ~
Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.
~By Eduard Shevardnadze ~
Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.
~By Michael Porter ~
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.
~By Alexis Herman ~
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
~By Wilma Mankiller ~
America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.
~By Wilma Mankiller ~
We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March organization, some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial boards.
~By Michael D. Barnes ~
In survey after survey, the Iraqi people say, 'We want to choose our leaders.'
~By Scott McClellan ~
I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
~By Daisaku Ikeda ~
Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.
~By Orrin Hatch ~
In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
~By Adam Schiff ~
Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.
~By Marty Meehan ~
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
~By George Will ~
This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.
~By Jim Cooper ~
Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.
~By Janos Kadar ~
Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
~By Mary Douglas ~
It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
~By Kamisese Mara ~
IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.
~By John Patrick ~
Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.
~By Nguyen Cao Ky ~
We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.
~By Zach Wamp ~
But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
~By James MacGregor Burns ~
Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
~By Norman Granz ~
In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.
~By John Erskine ~
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
~By Peter Drucker ~
Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.
~By Peter Pace ~
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