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Quotes About Leadership

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
~ Harold S. Geneen
You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
~ Harold S. Geneen
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
~ Harold S. Geneen
Management must manage!
~ Harold S. Geneen
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
~ Harold Wilson
Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Thee mustn't speak evil of thy rulers, Simeon," said his father, gravely. "The Lord only gives us our worldly goods that we may do justice and mercy; if our rulers require a price of us for it, we must deliver it up.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Greasy or not greasy, they will govern you, when their time comes," said Augustine; "and they will be just such rulers as you make them.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
They that cannot govern themselves cannot govern others (Pg. 238).
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
While politicians contend, and men are swerved this way and that by conflicting tides of interest and passion, the great cause of human liberty is in the hands of one...who shall not fail nor be discouraged...
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Women are the real architects of society.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.
~ Harriet Harman
Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.
~ Harriet Harman
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
~ Harriet Martineau
'Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, "I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me," and he always did.
~ Harriet Tubman
You can stand tall, without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
~ Harriet Woods
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~ Harry Bingham
Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.
~ Harry Connick Jr.
I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.
~ Harry Connick Jr.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
~ Harry Firestone
Without meaning to, you usually end up with a board made up of the richer members of the congregation.
~ Harry Kemelman
Fifteen or twenty tired men sitting around a table in a smoke-filled room behind locked doors.
~ Harry M. Daugherty
We weten dat hij nooit een concentratiekamp, laat staan een vernietigingskamp heeft bezocht. Dat liet hij over aan Himmler, de baas van de SS en de politie. Laat ik aannemen, dat hij op een dag besloot in Auschwitz te gaan kijken naar de dagelijkse vergassing van duizenden mannen, vrouwen en kinderen, die hij had bevolen. Hoe had hij op die aanblik gereageerd? Maar daarvoor moet ik zijn karakter veranderen, want dat is nu juist wat hij nooit gedaan heeft, en dan had ik hem weer niet begrepen.
~ Harry Mulisch