Quotes About Leadership

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.

It's not about money. The money will flow. It's about power and influence.

Change is not about putting a different kind of people in power but a different kind of power in people.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

Girls Who Rocked the World is full of inspiring stories about young women who demonstrate that people of all ages have the power to create change in the world.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

All political power is a trust.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

Culture follows power.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.

It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it.