Leader Quotes

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.

Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power.

A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader.

Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.

Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?

Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide.

From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.

I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.