Quotes About Leadership

If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.

Be an individual. I mean, obviously it's hard for a brand, for a corporation, to have a huge following.

I've been at Amazon for almost 20 years at this point, so I've obviously drunk the Kool-Aid.

As the governor of this state, I obviously see the issue quite differently.

There are always people that will rise to the occasion when there is no occasion, but it is hard to find people will do it when there is.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

As a general rule, the United States government is run by lawyers who occasionally take advice from economists. Others interested in helping the lawyers out need not apply.

You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.

Occasionally, you feel like the only person able to win the match. So you take all the responsibility, you do too much, and you do something bad.

During earlier occasions, I was fighting big parties - the BJP, Congress and BSP - and had also to face factional fight within the SP. I had to take on Sonia Gandhi, Mayawati and Azam Khan. I did have the support of Mulayam Singh Yadav though.

Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation.

I have confidence in the responsibility of those who occupy a seat in the legislature.

I cannot bear that chirpy Bobby Kennedy, always building his beaver's nest with a few more facts. He needs to look into the abyss.

It is virtually not assimilable to our reason that a small lonely man felled a giant in the midst of his limousines, his legions, his throng and his security. If such a nonentity destroyed the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, then a world of disproportion engulfs us, and we live in a universe that is absurd.

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

not for nothing had Lenin pointed out that there were ten years which passed like an uneventful day, but there was also the revolutionary day which was like ten years.

Most statesmen who become successful leaders of a country at war have usually risen to such eminence already. They have installed in themselves an ability not to suffer sleepless nights because of casualties on the other side. They now possess the mightiest of all social engines of psychic numbification—patriotism!

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

Once when Stonewall Jackson planned a daring attack, one of his generals fearfully objected, saying, "I am afraid of this" or "I fear that …" Putting his hand on his timorous subordinate's shoulder, Jackson said, "General, never take counsel of your fears.

Our chief want in life is someone who shall make us do what we can.

That was all many years ago," she continued; "but they never appointed a new Which, and that explains why today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so. For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.

Si las revoluciones no se hacen con palabras, las ideas no se implantan con decretos.

Imparai che la politica non è solo azione ma anche partecipazione. Forse, mi dissi, non si tratta di cambiare gli uomini quanto di accompagnarli, di essere uno di loro

Kennedy and Johnson had more to offer than bread alone. Initiatives such as the Peace Corps and the Alliance for Progress were intended to stimulate political as well as economic development.