Quotes about Leadership
I don't think that my job requires me to be competitive at all. I'm in my office by myself, or I'm in my writers' room with my people. I've chosen a job in which there's no competition allowed. It's probably best for everyone.
— Shonda Rhimes
Isn't composing music akin to film direction?
— Ilaiyaraaja
Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead - they call us.
— Barack Obama
Having a strong sense of self is fundamental to you, no matter what you're doing. I don't care if you're a stay at home mom raising kids or if you're the CEO of a corporation. It's really important for your survival.
— Shonda Rhimes
I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.
— George W. Bush
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
— John Bunyan
No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
— Andrew Jackson
Of course, being the synagogue president, for me it was a great blessing.
— Jacky Rosen
Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
— Patrick Lencioni
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
— Sam Walton
The highest type of leadership maintains itself by its intrinsic worth, sans panoply, pomp and power. Of course, there are never enough real leaders to go around. Wherefore it becomes necessary to dress some men up and by other artificial means to give them a prestige and a power which they could not win by their own resources.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
that the failure of governments is due to the pressure of economic interest upon them rather than to the "limited capacities of human wisdom.
— Reinhold Niebuhr