Quotes About Leadership

Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Lead from the heart, not the head.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

"Be shepherd's for God's flock that is under your care… not greedy for money, but eager to serve."

At the end of the day my most important title is still Mom-in-Chief.

"Making movies is like herding cats."

"Hounds follow those who feed them."

And against all the odds She stood up like the last samurai on the battleground She raised up like high tides on the full moon She shined up like an alpha Centauri She ignited like a tequila on the first sip She fiereced like the alpha of the pack And the whole world craved for her like the water on the Mars.

Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. You can't assemble them with a bunch of acquisitions.

If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

Thank God that the people that run this world are not smart enough to keep running it forever. You know, everybody gets a handle on it for a little while.

Thank God we have the example of Martin Luther King, Jr. People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives, and that's why it's so important not just to commemorate his life, but to study and try to live by the principles of that life.

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Power is always dangerous. It attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.

Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist.

Actions speak louder than meetings.

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies.

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.