Quotes About Leadership

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.

America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.

In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

They misunderestimated me.

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position.

I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.

I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!

Who I am today is what experience, obstacles and setbacks I have gone through, without them I wouldn't be as effective a leader I am today.

If you follow the crowd, you will go no further than the crowd. But if you walk alone, and find your own way, you will likely find yourself in places no one has ever been before.

Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary.

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.