It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
~By Boutros Boutros Ghali ~
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
~By James Humes ~
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.
~By Rosalyn S. Yalow ~
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.
~By Kendrick Meek ~
Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.
~By Chester Irving Barnard ~
Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.
~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
~By Chen Shui-bian ~
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
~By Vance Packard ~
As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.
~By Kendrick Meek ~
There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.
~By Adam Rickitt ~
One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.
~By Sanford I. Weill ~
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 ~
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
~By Karl Von Clausewitz ~
Leadership demands that we make tough choices.
~By Alan Autry ~
What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.
~By Paul Ryan ~
I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.
~By Bob Ehrlich ~
In this nation, leadership is dollars.
~By Norman Lear ~
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
~By Hartley William Shawcross ~
I don't see a candidate on the scene right now, but it is going to have to be a candidate that people can look at as a leader and not as a man or a woman.
~By Julie Nixon Eisenhower ~
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.
~By Ron D. Burton ~
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.
~By Bob Etheridge ~
I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.
~By Amos Oz ~
You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.
~By Tom Ridge ~
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
~By Warren Bennis ~
I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.
~By Bill Hybels ~
When we were doing the cheerleading for this, I was excited about doing it because I always wanted to be a cheerleader. I always wanted to but I didn't get to because I was working.
~By Christina Milian ~
I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.
~By Bill Kreutzmann ~
All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
~By Henry Miller ~
The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.
~By John Sherman Cooper ~
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.
~By Peter King ~
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
~By John Updike ~
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
~By Thomas J. Peters ~
Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.
~By John Jay Hooker ~
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
~By Theodore Hesburgh ~
While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.
~By Rahm Emanuel ~
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 ~
Character matters; leadership descends from character.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.
~By Pat Robertson ~
And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!
~By Brian Mulroney ~
My point is cutting spending shouldn't be reliant on the debt limit though. It's something we have to do. The good news for America is, leaders in both parties, the president, believe that we have to have significant deficit reduction. So the intent is there. And I think what America is going to demand is that our leaders come together.
~By David Plouffe ~
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
~By John Naisbitt ~
Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.
~By Norman Lear ~
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 ~
But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.
~By Martin McGuinness ~
And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.
~By Peter King ~
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
~By Henry Ellis ~
I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.
~By Bill Condon ~
Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.
~By Ronnie Milsap ~
It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.
~By Jan Egeland ~
Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
~By Mary Douglas ~
I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.
~By Ernst Zundel ~
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.
~By James Forrestal ~
A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
~By Peter Drucker ~
It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.
~By Chris Van Hollen ~
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
~By Hakeem Olajuwon ~
Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
~By Robert Baden-Powell ~
That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.
~By Shimon Peres ~
The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.
~By Michael Burgess ~
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
~By James Dobson ~
We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.
~By Gray Davis ~
I think you need people of principle, of character, that are leaders, that take stands on important tough issues that will affect the future of this country.
~By Sean Hannity ~
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
~By James MacGregor Burns ~
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
~By Carly Fiorina ~
At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.
~By Ellen Tauscher ~
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 ~
I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
~By Ralph Bunche ~
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.
~By Louis Gerstner ~
It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.
~By Sherrod Brown ~
Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.
~By Dianne Feinstein ~
Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process that I've ever been involved in.
~By Stone Gossard ~
Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.
~By Dianne Feinstein ~
When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."
~By Lao Tzu ~
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
~By Faye Wattleton ~
Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.
~By Cofer Black ~
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
~By Jessica Lange ~
Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.
~By Tom Daschle ~
Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.
~By Terry Semel ~
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 ~
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