Quotes on Leader

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

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

Author: John Adams

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

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

Author: Tadao Ando

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

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

Author: Hannah Arendt

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

Author: Mary Ash

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

Author: Margaret Atwood

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

Author: Irving Babbitt

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

Author: Robert Baden-Powell

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

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

Author: Steve Ballmer

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

Author: Joel Barker

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

Author: Gresham Barrett

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

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

Author: Warren Bennis

The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader.

Author: Mary Berry

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

Author: Aneurin Bevan

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

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

Author: Julie Bishop

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

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Author: James Boren

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

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

Author: Jack Bowman

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

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

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

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

Author: James Callaghan

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

Author: James Callaghan

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

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

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

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

Author: Joshua Chamberlain

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

Author: Alexander Chase

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

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

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

Author: Karl Clausewitz

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

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

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

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

Author: Anthony D'Angelo

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

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

Author: Howard Dean

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

Author: Dustin Diamond

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

Author: Joe DiMaggio

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

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

Author: Christopher Dodd

The United States is the leader of the free world.

Author: Elizabeth Dole

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

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

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

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

Author: John Erskine

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

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

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

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

Author: Louis Farrakhan

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

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

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

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

Author: Tom Ford

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Author: Margaret Fuller

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

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

Author: Howard Gardner

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Newt Gingrich

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

Author: Newt Gingrich

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

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

Author: Rudy Giuliani

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

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

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

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

Author: Norman Granz

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

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

Author: Jane Harman

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

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

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

Author: Hermann Hesse

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

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

Author: Adolf Hitler

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

Author: Eric Hoffer

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

Author: Tim Holden

Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.

Author: John Hooker

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

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

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

Author: Sam Houston

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

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

Author: John Hume

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

Author: Daisaku Ikeda

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

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

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

Author: Antony Jay

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Author: Steve Jobs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Hamad Khalifa

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

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

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

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

Author: Martin King, Jr.

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

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

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

Author: Henry Kissinger

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

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

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

Author: Mike Krzyzewski

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

Author: Sanjay Kumar

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

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

Author: Tom Lantos

We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.

Author: Rick Larsen

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

Author: Irving Layton

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

Author: Robert Ley

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 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

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

Author: Ernest Mandel

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

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

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

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

Author: John Maxwell

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

Author: John Maxwell

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

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

Author: Francis McConnell

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

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

Author: John McGinley

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

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

Author: Golda Meir

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

Author: Henry Miller

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

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

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

Author: Toni Morrison

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

Author: Constance Motley

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

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

Author: John Naisbitt

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Richard Nixon

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

Author: George Noory

Fish recognize a bad leader.

Author: Conan O'Brien