The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.
~By Gary Wills ~
Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
~By Anita Borg ~
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 ~
We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.
~By David Vitter ~
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 ~
I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
~By Vernon Jordan ~
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 ~
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 ~
We need leadership, and we need it now.
~By Byron Dorgan ~
The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
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 ~
We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.
~By Rick Larsen ~
The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.
~By Louis Gerstner ~
My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
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 ~
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 ~
Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.
~By Janos Kadar ~
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
~By Pat Riley ~
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 ~
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 ~
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
~By Theodore Hesburgh ~
I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.
~By Howard Coble ~
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 ~
I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.
~By Ron Kind ~
I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.'
~By Studs Terkel ~
Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.
~By John Abizaid ~
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 ~
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 ~
Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
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 ~
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
~By Stephen Covey ~
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
~By Lewis H. Lapham ~
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 ~
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
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 ~
The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
~By Zhang Ziyi ~
If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.
~By Ed Gillespie ~
Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
~By Bo Bennett ~
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 ~
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
~By Gerry Adams ~
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
~By Vance Packard ~
In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
~By Daley Thompson ~
Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.
~By Thomas Menino ~
Leadership does not depend on being right.
~By Ivan Illich ~
It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
~By Kamisese Mara ~
Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Leadership is influence.
~By John C. Maxwell ~
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
~By Mao Tse Tung ~
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 ~
There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.
~By Edward Kennedy ~
If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
~By Ingvar Kamprad ~
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 ~
But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.
~By Martin McGuinness ~
Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
~By Gary Wills ~
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
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 ~
Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
~By Gerry Adams ~
I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
~By Jim Rohn ~
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.
~By Cyril Falls ~
All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.
~By Thomas E. Mann ~
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
~By James Buchanan ~
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 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 ~
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.
~By Jon Kyl ~
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 ~
Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
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 ~
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 ~
We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.
~By Tom Coburn ~
President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.
~By Lindsey Graham ~
Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.
~By Tom Daschle ~
I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
~By Yitzhak Shamir ~
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 ~
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 ~
I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
~By E. P. Thompson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
In this nation, leadership is dollars.
~By Norman Lear ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.
~By Linda Vester ~
Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.
~By Pete Domenici ~
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
~By Mary Douglas ~
We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.
~By Wilson Greatbatch ~
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
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 ~
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 ~
This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.
~By Jim Cooper ~
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
~By Norman Schwarzkopf ~
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
~By George Soros ~
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 ~
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