Quotes About Leadership

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

All of us are mentors. You're mentors right here and now. And one of the things I've always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.

If you would have told me when I was 24 years old, right before I went with Coach Carroll to USC, you're going to get to be the offensive coordinator for Pete Carroll and then offensive coordinator for Nick Saban, arguably maybe the two best coaches in all of football by the time you're 40 years old, I would have said, 'Where do I sign up?'

I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.

We will use political power as a tool to improve the lives of the people.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.

Politicians must be simple and clear about how their ideas will serve the national cause. We can no longer use the complexity of today's problems as an excuse for inaction, rhyme or rhetoric that does not meet the challenges before us.

I'm very thankful for the platform I've been given, and I realize that I'm a role model for many people. I want to use my platform to spread positivity.

If you give me $100bn now, I can't use it. There is not only money, there is talent and experience. That's why we need the private sector.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.

When I did a film with Salman Khan, he used to get up at 5 in the morning for shoots. If I can handle Salman then I think nobody in the industry is a problem.

On rare occasions, Dad used to reminisce about when he met Eisenhower and how Churchill would pop in, in the late hours of the evening or night, carrying a cigar, when he'd obviously had a good dinner.

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.

Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories, and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated.

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.