Quotes about Leadership

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.

I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.

In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.

I didn't want to be like everyone else. I wanted to be better. If I did what everybody else did, then why would you look up to me? Why would I set an example?

If you have excellent people, then you have to give them the power.

The worst kind of businesses are ones where there are no expectations set out for employees.

My deal, I want to be the best to ever play the game and I try to bring that same energy for my team, laying it all on the line for them.

You're not a leader if you haven't been elected.

Locally, I'll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

I love alpha males.

Bill Ayers, Frank Marshall Davis, Edward Said, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, and Jeremiah Wright. This is a group I've previously called "Obama's founding fathers.

Notice that the GOP program—articulated by Douglass and affirmed by black leaders—is none other than the color-blind ideal outlined in Martin Luther King's famous "dream." King envisioned a society in which we are judged by the content of our character, not the color of our skin. This is substantially what Douglass and other black Republicans called for, more than a century earlier.