Leader Quotes

As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.

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

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

Wayne Downing is also a great leader, has served our nation very well, and I think it's great that he's coming back to join a very capable administration already of dealing with this problem, and it will just strengthen that team.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.

The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.