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Quotes About Leadership

The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
~ Samuel Smiles
Al Davis treated me like son. That man helped me become the man I am today.
~ Sebastian Janikowski
It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.
~ Susan Stebbing
By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.
~ Tacitus
Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.
~ Tim Robbins
King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.
~ Tony Blair
Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.
~ Unknown
A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.
~ Walter Savage Landor
The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.
~ William S. Knudsen
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
~ H. L. Mencken
Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.
~ Hannibal
Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.
~ Henry Adams
There ought to be more scrupulous honesty in big business men than in any other human relation. For big business requires teamwork on a gigantic scale.
~ Henry Latham Doherty
We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?
~ Henry Mintzberg
So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.
~ Herbert Spencer
India riding on MS Dhoni wave, Dhoni is a different man in World Cups
~ Ian Chappell
Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father.
~ Indira Gandhi
To be a man, a boy must see a man
~ J. R. Moehringer
There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.
~ Jill Soloway
In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.
~ Joe Biden
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!
~ John Adams
There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady.
~ John F. Kennedy