Quotes About Leadership

We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.

In early 1798, the Directory, the oligarchy that was ruling revolutionary France, ordered its top general, Napoleon Bonaparte, to plan the invasion of England. Instead, Napoleon organized and carried out the invasion of Egypt, which became the first modern incursion by the West into the Middle East.

Many businesses find their culture organized around a dangerous fault line known as 'us and them,' with executives on one side and employees on the other. The divide is both real and expensive.

Another word for politics in my mind is organization. You have to be organized; you have to get out there. It's not just magic.

I'm an educator. I'm an organizer.

I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.

In 1981, I was a community organizer.

Obama used to be a community organizer. He knows how to build communities.

I am the most optimistic organizer in this country.

The best advice I ever got as an organizer was that if you can organize your family, you're a good organizer.

We are organizing Jewry for its coming destiny.

There can be no one best way of organizing a business.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.

I've done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don't wait for people to come to us and say, 'Help us organize something.' We go out into the community, and we bring the skills to a group of people to organize themselves.

I have my chops in organizing, and I know how to create political space through movement building.

I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights. I do not go into people's bedrooms. I appoint people based on their capabilities, not their sexual orientation.

I won't be allowing my own background or my own sexual orientation to dictate the decisions that I make.

From the first-year students' fall orientation to the board's annual budget-approval meeting, everything a healthy college does requires a shared sense of mission.

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.

I am the original... Those are my disciples.

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

The Orlando Magic is a great organization.