Quotes of: Business-leaders Keyword

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

Pete du Pont

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

Carl von Clausewitz

Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide.

Henry Louis Gates

A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.

Margaret Heffernan

Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days.

Shelby Foote

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Warren Bennis

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

Bill O'Reilly

For any new leader of any party at any given time it takes time if you are not in government to establish yourself.

Charles Kennedy

I think effective leaders typically are able to see the future to a certain degree and then try to take actions to shape it in some way.

Mitt Romney

I think you need people of principle, of character, that are leaders, that take stands on important tough issues that will affect the future of this country.

Sean Hannity

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.

John Ralston Saul

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

Bill Owens

I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it's almost impossible for just one person to do that.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Warren Bennis

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

James MacGregor Burns

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

Gregg Sulkin

When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

Elizabeth Joan Smith

The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.

Evan Rachel Wood

If you don’t find a leader, perhaps it is because you were meant to lead.

Glenn Beck

A cult leader alone in his beliefs is just a crazy dude with a beard.

Caitlin Doughty