Quotes about Leadership
This was their finest hour
- Winston Churchill
There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
- Woodrow Wilson
Freedom exists only where people take care of the government.
- Woodrow Wilson
We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.
- Woodrow Wilson
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
- Woodrow Wilson
No one set of interests can safely be suffered to dominate the country.
- Woodrow Wilson
I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.
- David Ogilvy
Committees can criticize, but they cannot create.
- David Ogilvy
Never summon people to your office; it frightens them. Instead, go to see them in their offices, unannounced. A boss who never wanders about his agency becomes an invisible hermit. 3
- David Ogilvy
Search the parks in all your cities You'll find no statues of committees
- David Ogilvy
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it… Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
- David Ogilvy
Queen Victoria complained that Gladstone talked to her as if he were addressing a public meeting. She preferred Disraeli, who talked to her like a human being. When you write copy, follow Disraeli's example.
- David Ogilvy