Quotes About Leadership

I don't think I was a control freak. I just couldn't get my head around things. When I joined Sheffield United I was told I had £5m to spend, then when I went to see the chief executive he told me if I didn't raise £350,000 no one was getting paid.

At the height of my film career I joined politics because I felt I had more to do than just act.

I could have joined politics during Nehru's or Indira Gandhi's time. I don't want to. I stay away from these things.

Mamata Banerjee was the reason for me joining politics.

My reason for joining politics is not to make money, as I have enough of my own, but to help the poor.

I think I've always been able to see what's coming, and when I was joining Google, people always said, 'Why are you joining this company?' It was so small at the time. I could see the importance of Google. I could see the way it was going to grow; it was going to become a big company.

I am joining politics for sure.

If you look at my history, my history is that of forming bands rather than joining them.

I am hesitating about joining politics since I know the difficulties.

I am not cut out for politics. I don't even dream of joining politics.

I never thought of joining politics, but found AAP as perfect choice for someone like me.

I started my company Harbortouch when I was 16 and that's still my day job so I never had any break from the action to ever think about joining the military.

Trump would either be the Scarecrow or the Joker.

One of the marvelous things about Churchill is that whatever he was doing, whether fighting or arguing or despairing or bouncing about full of energy, jokes are never far away.

When I am captaining a side, the way I play would be the way my team plays as well. If I will be joking around all the time, I wouldn't expect people to take me seriously.

Let me tell you something about Moses," she would say, not with total originality, and be quoted in The New York Times. "He took us forty years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil.

I don't know anything about leadership," Golda replied, typically eschewing theoretical talk. "I can only tell you that I was going to the theater one evening and got on an elevator. Nobody in the elevator bothered to move. So I pressed the button. That's all I can say about leadership.

In her perseverance, she also devised a novel fund-raising scheme: gather a hundred rich Jews from Palestine into a room and do not allow them to leave until each signs a check for a thousand pounds.

As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.

Nothing is more damaging to a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Men in great place are thrice servants, servants to the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business, so as they have freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.