Quotes About Leadership

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

If you think you're a leader, and you look over your shoulder and there ain't nobody following you, man, you're just takin' a walk.

History is rarely made by reasonable men.

The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.

I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.

A manager is an assistant to his men.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

I am for Obama, all the way. I dont support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because he is an educated black man. He is making black people proud.

Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.

Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.

The wealthiest man among us is the best

A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.

This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.

A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.