Quotes about Leadership
Every new level of growth we hope to experience as leaders calls for a new level of change. You cannot have one without the other. If you want to be a better leader, get ready to make some trades.
— John Maxwell
There were always jokes about Hillary Clinton channeling Eleanor Roosevelt, but Eleanor Roosevelt was really instrumental at the UN, and would want to meet with various other delegates.
— Madeleine Albright
We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Successful leaders don't start out asking, 'What do I want to do?' They ask, 'What needs to be done?' Then they ask, 'Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?'
— Peter Drucker
If not us, who? And if not now, when?
— Ronald Reagan
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
— Ronald Reagan
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
— George Washington
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.
— Steve Jobs
The only way to win World War III is to prevent it.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
— Alexander Hamilton
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
— Theodore Roosevelt