Quotes About Leadership

I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.

When things are said and done, I always want to be remembered as a great teammate and a great player.

Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how - and know that they want to follow you.

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

"'Come on, guys, I'm the leader of a whole movie...!' I tell when I want people to fear and respect me. Not wildly effective."

I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.

If that's the kind of person you want, vote for Hillary [Clinton], vote for [Donald] Trump - and you go to hell with both of them.

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.

Political leaders need to formulate long-term EU goals that show: Yes, we want to stay together.

I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

Donald Trump says he wants to run America like he's running his business? God help us.

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.

Most of my company is run by women. There's a certain sensitivity to what I want to express, so that's what I want around me.

Running for president must be like having babies. You have to forget what it was like the last time before you want to do it again.

I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you're back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you've got to keep moving.

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.

Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.