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Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~


Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.
~By Frederick Reines ~


Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
~By Zell Miller ~


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 ~


So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.
~By Geena Davis ~


While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~


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 ~


The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.
~By Herman Cain ~


I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.
~By Shirin Ebadi ~


As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
~By Bill Gates ~


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 ~


One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
~By Arnold H. Glasow ~


We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
~By Irving Babbitt ~


I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people.
~By Tony Greig ~


I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.
~By Roy Clark ~


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 ~


This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.
~By Marc Morial ~


Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~


God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.
~By Trevor Huddleston ~


Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.
~By Frederick W. Smith ~


I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born, they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation, not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls, that they go from their gut check.
~By Kevin Costner ~


Education is the mother of leadership.
~By Wendell Willkie ~


Leadership is influence.
~By John C. Maxwell ~


Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.
~By Robert Teeter ~


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 ~


We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
~By Yahoo Serious ~


But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.
~By Martin McGuinness ~


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'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.
~By Richard J. Daley ~


There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.
~By Kevin Rollins ~


I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.
~By John Breaux ~


Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.
~By Bill Owens ~


Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.
~By John Grierson ~


But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
~By Chris Patten ~


The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~


Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
~By Norman Schwarzkopf ~


Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.
~By Robert Teeter ~


Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
~By Rudy Giuliani ~


I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.
~By Adam Baldwin ~


The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
~By Valerie Jarrett ~


Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.
~By Stafford Cripps ~


While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist.
~By Alcee Hastings ~


Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.
~By John P. Kotter ~


Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.
~By William Kirby ~


There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.
~By Peter Pace ~


The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.
~By Bill Frist ~


The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~


Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
~By Tom Landry ~


The art of communication is the language of leadership.
~By James Humes ~


I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact.
~By Strom Thurmond ~


I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
~By Lee Iacocca ~


President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.
~By Dennis Hastert ~


The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
~By Michael Pollan ~


I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~


In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~


The local communities, through their leaders, were able to build a communications network that allowed my work here to reflect the needs and interests of the people within the 9th Congressional District. It's been an honor to do that and we did so successfully.
~By Nick Lampson ~


Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
~By George W. Bush ~


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 ~


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.
~By Jack Reed ~


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.
~By Seth Godin ~


The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.
~By Jim Clyburn ~


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.
~By Lindsey Graham ~


Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
~By Andy Grove ~


One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.
~By Robert Shea ~


True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
~By Bill Owens ~


Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.
~By Bill Bradley ~


There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.'
~By Chuck D. ~


The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
~By Adolf Hitler ~


Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
~By Bill Bradley ~


Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
~By Jesse Jackson ~


Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
~By Allen Klein ~


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 ~


Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~


The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.
~By Cyril Falls ~


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 ~


What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.
~By Thelma Drake ~


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 ~


Leadership does not depend on being right.
~By Ivan Illich ~


For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
~By Annie Besant ~


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 ~


At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.
~By Donald Evans ~


A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.
~By Bob Graham ~


Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
~By Malcolm Forbes ~


Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.
~By Maria Cantwell ~


I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.
~By Steve Ballmer ~


Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.
~By Christie Hefner ~


There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.
~By John Raleigh Mott ~


I think it's a good thing for a president or political leaders to want to put their values or their faith into action. Desmond Tutu did that in South Africa. Martin Luther King Jr. did that here. This is a good thing.
~By Jim Wallis ~


We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.
~By Peter Chernin ~


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 ~


I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.
~By Earl Browder ~


Good leaders must first become good servants.
~By Robert Greenleaf ~


Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.
~By John Raleigh Mott ~


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 ~


I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~


Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
~By Colin Powell ~


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 ~


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


Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
~By Marian Anderson ~


One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.
~By Ayatollah Khomeini ~

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