271 Quotes on Leader

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

  Author: Jose Zapatero

• I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

  Author: Marguerite Young

• The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

  Author: Xenophon

• Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

  Author: Joe Wurzelbacher

• The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.

  Author: Rainn Wilson

• When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.

  Author: Joss Whedon

• One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

  Author: Archibald Wavell

• North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.

  Author: Mel Watt

• It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.

  Author: Roger Waters

• Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.

  Author: Mark Warner

• As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

  Author: James Walsh

• I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

  Author: Neale Walsch

• I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.

  Author: Charles Vest

• For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.

  Author: Johnny Vegas

• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."

  Author: Lao Tzu

• The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  Author: Lao Tzu

• I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

  Author: Desmond Tutu

• I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

  Author: Edward Tufte

• A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

  Author: Harry Truman

• The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.

  Author: Mac Thornberry

• As a leader, you're supposed to be above reproach, and what that means is you can't even give the appearance that you're going to do something wrong.

  Author: Kevin Thomas

• Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

  Author: Valentina Tereshkova

• While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked.

  Author: Taliesin

• Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

  Author: Tacitus

• Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.

  Author: Maurice Strong

• I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

  Author: John Sousa

• I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?

  Author: George Smathers

• If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.

  Author: Andrew Shue

• Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• Penn State is a leader in food science.

  Author: Don Sherwood

• I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

  Author: Billy Sherwood

• Wayne Downing is also a great leader, has served our nation very well, and I think it's great that he's coming back to join a very capable administration already of dealing with this problem, and it will just strengthen that team.

  Author: Hugh Shelton

• There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

  Author: Hartley Shawcross

• Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.

  Author: Ariel Sharon

• On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

  Author: Natan Sharansky

• I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

  Author: Tupac Shakur

• Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.

  Author: Lance Secretan

• It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

  Author: Lee Scott

• Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter.

  Author: Lee Scott

• My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

  Author: Sydney Schanberg

• I plan on being a friend, a good leader and a good governor over these next three years.

  Author: John Rowland

• People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt

• My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

  Author: Zhu Rongji

• The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.

  Author: Mitt Romney

• I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different... different personalities and musical tastes.

  Author: Buddy Rich

• A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

  Author: Robert Reich

• You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

  Author: Sam Rayburn

• The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

  Author: Ayn Rand

• I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.

  Author: Yitzhak Rabin

• I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

  Author: Theo Raadt

• My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.

  Author: Louis Prima

• The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

  Author: Max Pree

• Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

  Author: Colin Powell

• I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

  Author: Pol Pot

• If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.

  Author: Michael Porter

• The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.

  Author: Michael Porter

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

  Author: Pete Pont

• When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

  Author: Plato

• When you have a clearly open homosexual scout leader, the scouts are going to talk about it. And they're not there to learn about that. They're there to learn about what it means to be loyal and trustworthy and thrifty.

  Author: Rick Perry

• To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

  Author: Fred Perry

• The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.

  Author: Frances Perkins

• In America, public opinion is the leader.

  Author: Frances Perkins

• That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

  Author: Shimon Peres

• It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.

  Author: Bill Owens

• Rick is the leader and I don't have a problem with that.

  Author: Benjamin Orr

• To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

  Author: Margaret Oliphant

• I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.

  Author: Jean O'Leary

• All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?

  Author: Hakeem Olajuwon

• It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980.

  Author: William Odom

• Fish recognize a bad leader.

  Author: Conan O'Brien

• Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.

  Author: George Noory

• If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

  Author: Gavin Newsom

• My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

  Author: Richard Neuhaus

• A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

  Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

• To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

  Author: Joe Namath

• The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

  Author: John Naisbitt

• A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

  Author: Ralph Nader

• And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!

  Author: Brian Mulroney

• By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

  Author: Constance Motley

• Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

  Author: Toni Morrison

• As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president.

  Author: Dick Morris

• For me, I have no political ego in this thing with respect to any other leader and what they might feel is appropriate or necessary in what they're going to try to do... We need everybody on the front lines.

  Author: Marc Morial

• This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

  Author: Ronnie Milsap

• The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

  Author: Henry Miller

• A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

  Author: Golda Meir

• It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

  Author: Ian Mckellen

• As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

  Author: John McGinley

• That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.

  Author: Mary McDonnell

• We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything.

  Author: Francis McConnell

• I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

  Author: Paul McCartney

• People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

  Author: John Maxwell

• A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

  Author: John Maxwell

• The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

  Author: Andre Maurois

• It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.

  Author: Francis Maude

• I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

  Author: Ziggy Marley

• People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

  Author: Bob Marley

• In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.

  Author: Kenny Marchant

• And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

  Author: Ernest Mandel

• The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

  Author: Andre Malraux

• Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

  Author: Courtney Love

• The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

  Author: Vince Lombardi

• The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  Author: Walter Lippmann

• The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

  Author: Walter Lippmann

• I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.

  Author: Dan Lipinski

• In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.

  Author: Joe Lieberman

• A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.

  Author: Robert Ley

• My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

  Author: John Lennon

• The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

  Author: Blaine Lee

• In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

  Author: Irving Layton

• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'

  Author: Laozi

• The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.

  Author: Tom Lantos

• Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

  Author: Guy Lafleur

• Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company.

  Author: Sanjay Kumar

• Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.

  Author: Mike Krzyzewski

• The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

  Author: Ray Kroc

• I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.

  Author: Bill Kreutzmann

• I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.

  Author: Lajos Kossuth

• A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

  Author: Henry Kissinger

• A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

  Author: Henry Kissinger

• The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

  Author: Henry Kissinger

• It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

  Author: Henry Kissinger

• A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

  Author: Martin King, Jr.

• It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

  Author: Billie King

• The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.

  Author: Val Kilmer

• I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.

  Author: Tracy Kidder

• It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

  Author: Hamad Khalifa

• The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.

  Author: John Keegan

• But I do think the survey group - and I think Charlie Duelfer is a great leader. I have the utmost confidence in Charles. I think you will get as full an answer as you can possibly get.

  Author: David Kay

• As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

  Author: David Kay

• Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world.

  Author: Marcy Kaptur

• The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.

  Author: Bob Kane

• I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

  Author: Mother Jones

• Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.

  Author: Jimmy Johnson

• We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.

  Author: Mike Johanns

• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Author: Steve Jobs

• But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.

  Author: Ron Jaworski

• Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.

  Author: Laurent Jalabert

• Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.

  Author: Bianca Jagger

• A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

  Author: Daisaku Ikeda

• The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.

  Author: Jon Huntsman, Jr.

• I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

  Author: John Hume

• Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.

  Author: Jane Hull

• A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

  Author: Sam Houston

• With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited.

  Author: Tom Hooper

• There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

  Author: Shannon Hoon

• Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.

  Author: Tim Holden

• The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

  Author: Eric Hoffer

• It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.

  Author: Dee Hock

• The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

  Author: Adolf Hitler

• All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.

  Author: Heinrich Himmler

• And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.

  Author: Betty Hill

• Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

  Author: Hermann Hesse

• If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

  Author: Kristin Hersh

• America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.

  Author: Jesse Helms

• The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.

  Author: Roy Haynes

• Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.

  Author: Paul Harris

• We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

  Author: W. Harriman

• First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.

  Author: Stephen Harper

• The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

  Author: Stephen Harper

• There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

  Author: Jane Harman

• And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

  Author: Rafik Hariri

• I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

  Author: Tom Hanks

• In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

  Author: Herbie Hancock

• Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

  Author: Norman Granz

• Eddie is a natural leader. Jeff and I have been very much in control of previous bands we've worked in. But the way Eddie grew into being the leader of this band was the most gradual, slow and respectful process that I've ever been involved in.

  Author: Stone Gossard

• Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

  Author: Seth Godin

• A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

  Author: Arnold Glasgow

• In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

  Author: Rudy Giuliani

• There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

  Author: Rudy Giuliani

• I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

  Author: Newt Gingrich

• Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs.

  Author: Jim Gerlach

• I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.

  Author: Richard Gere

• A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

  Author: Harold Geneen

• A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

  Author: Charles Gaulle

• The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

  Author: Charles Gaulle

• Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

  Author: Howard Gardner

• Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

  Author: George Gallup

• Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

  Author: Margaret Fuller

• The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

  Author: Tom Ford

• 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.

  Author: Shelby Foote

• On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places.

  Author: Mark Foley

• Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

  Author: Mike Ferguson

• They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

  Author: Louis Farrakhan

• Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

  Author: Oriana Fallaci

• Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.

  Author: Charles Evers

• As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.

  Author: Donald Evans

• The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.

  Author: Daniel Evans

• In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.

  Author: John Erskine

• For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.

  Author: John Ensign

• As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

  Author: Jo Emerson

• To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

  Author: Henry Ellis

• I don't see a candidate on the scene right now, but it is going to have to be a candidate that people can look at as a leader and not as a man or a woman.

  Author: Julie Eisenhower

• George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.

  Author: Jim Edgar

• Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.

  Author: Mary Douglas

• The United States is the leader of the free world.

  Author: Elizabeth Dole

• As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.

  Author: Christopher Dodd

• I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now.

  Author: Frank Dobson

• I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

  Author: Benjamin Disraeli

• A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

  Author: Joe DiMaggio

• I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

  Author: Dustin Diamond

• This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.

  Author: Howard Dean

• Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.

  Author: Tom Daschle

• You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

  Author: Anthony D'Angelo

• As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.

  Author: Ann Coulter

• Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.

  Author: Jim Cooper

• Kinsey was six foot five, and he had this leader of men quality.

  Author: Bill Condon

• At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.

  Author: Carlo Collodi

• It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.

  Author: Norm Coleman

• On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.

  Author: Stephen Cohen

• The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

  Author: George Clooney

• We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.

  Author: Hillary Clinton

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

  Author: Karl Clausewitz

• If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

  Author: Karl Clausewitz

• I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader.

  Author: Leroy Chiao

• People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

  Author: Alexander Chase

• I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.

  Author: Joshua Chamberlain

• A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

  Author: Rosalynn Carter

• Cause I was such a novice and thank God that Sarah was as seasoned as she was because she was really a great leader in that regard in the sense that she would communicate really well with the crew.

  Author: Charisma Carpenter

• No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

  Author: Andrew Carnegie

• Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she's been about. And here they're going to put her back in charge.

  Author: Eric Cantor

• A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

  Author: James Callaghan

• A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

  Author: James Callaghan

• I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.

  Author: Mangosuthu Buthelezi

• Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.

  Author: Vincent Bugliosi

• But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.

  Author: Rory Bremner

• So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.

  Author: Ed Bradley

• If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived.

  Author: John Bracken

• I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.

  Author: Jack Bowman

• I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes.

  Author: Julie Bowen

• It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

  Author: James Boren

• A leader is a dealer in hope.

  Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

• I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

  Author: David Blunkett

• In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

  Author: Ken Blanchard

• Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care.

  Author: Julie Bishop

• Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader.

  Author: Judy Biggert

• I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

  Author: Aneurin Bevan

• Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

  Author: Warren Bennis

• The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

  Author: Warren Bennis

• The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

  Author: Warren Bennis

• The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

  Author: Warren Bennis

• The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

  Author: Warren Bennis

• A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

  Author: Bo Bennett

• A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

  Author: Bernard Baruch

• At the end of the day, we need a leader who thinks with his head but leads with his heart.

  Author: Gresham Barrett

• A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

  Author: Joel Barker

• Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.

  Author: Steve Ballmer

• So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.

  Author: Kenneth Baker

• Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

  Author: Robert Baden-Powell

• Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

  Author: Irving Babbitt

• We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

  Author: Margaret Atwood

• The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

  Author: Mary Ash

• The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

  Author: Hannah Arendt

• I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

  Author: Tadao Ando

• You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.

  Author: Tadao Ando

• Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?

  Author: John Amery

• The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

  Author: Richard Allen

• The 'transition' involves the transfer of power from one president to another. In recent times, the incoming President has designated a Director of the Transition, a team leader, to oversee and administer the orderly transfer of power.

  Author: Richard Allen

• A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.

  Author: Richard Allen

• If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  Author: John Adams

• The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them.

  Author: John Adair

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