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Quotes About Leadership

When youre up to your armpits in alligators, its hard to remember to drain the swamp.
~ Ronald Reagan
Get the right people on the bus and in the right seat.
~ Jim Collins
You, you, and you...panic. The rest of you, come with me.
~ Unknown
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
~ John Atkinson
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
~ Unknown
The question Who ought to be boss is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
~ Henry Ford
It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.
~ Unknown
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
~ Dwight Eisenhower
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
~ Adlai Stevenson
In my country we go to prison first and then become President .
~ Nelson Mandela
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
Our history suggests that women will continue to show the world how to be friends.
~ Marilyn Yalom
sometimes there's someone else, especially when the sky goes dark: the person guiding slowly from behind. That's who I've become in my family.
~ Unknown
President Donald Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly told a Des Moines audience Tuesday that his former boss can't admit to making a mistake because "his manhood is at issue here." "I don't understand it, although I had to deal with it every day, said Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general who served as Trump's top aide from July 31, 2017, until his Jan. 2, 2019, resignation.
~ Unknown
We have got to get to the point of looking very, very hard at who is running for office, Kelly said. We need to look at their character, their record on integrity, morality ... then say, 'Now let's talk politics.
~ Unknown
What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
~ Mario Andretti
My objective as a manager, of course, is to remove the obstacles that prohibit greatness of the people that I've hired.
~ Mario Batali
Our black president can't say that he's for gay marriage. That is upsetting to me.
~ Mario Cantone
We campaign in poetry. But when we're elected we're forced to govern in prose.
~ Mario Cuomo
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
~ Mario Cuomo
Please make this nation remember how futures are built
~ Mario Cuomo
So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We don't need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.
~ Mario Diaz-Balart
I trust the people who are working with me. I delegate.
~ Mario Draghi