Best Leader Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.”

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Author:Richard Louv

“I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.”

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Author:Adam Lambert

“Barack Obama and Jimmy Hoffa are like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Lady Gaga and hype, the 'Jersey Shore' cast and hairspray: inseparable. The president can no more disown the Teamsters Union's leader than he can disown his own id.”

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Author:Michelle Malkin

“By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.”

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Author:Mitch McConnell

“For four years, Americans have waited for the faintest light to flicker at the end of the tunnel. And this President has let them down again and again and again. It is time to move on. It is time for a leader who will lead. That leader is Mitt Romney.”

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Author:Mitch McConnell

“I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.”

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Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician.”

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Author:Alexei Navalny

“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.”

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Author:Gavin Newsom

“Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.”

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Author:Grace Napolitano

“The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.”

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Author:Indra Nooyi

“I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.”

Thinking Leader Resistance Passive Incapable Passive Resistance

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“The 2016 presidential election is ripe for the emergence of a game-changing political leader who either dramatically reforms one of the existing parties or mounts an independent bid.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.”

Has Beens Home Political Leader Failing Dangerous Politician Institutions Decades Voters Decline Steep Nodding Political Institutions Elected Leaders

Author:Ron Fournier

“People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis.”

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Author:Lucy Powell

“All Jews, however, in proportion as they are one with the leaders and rulers of their race, will oppose the influence of the supernatural Life of Grace in society and will be an active ferment of Naturalism.”

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Author:Denis Fahey

“Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.”

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Author:Aaron Levie

“Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.”

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Author:Eric Liu

“I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.”

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Author:Azim Premji

“I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.”

Sometimes My Own Party Leader Independence Congress Opposing

Author:Collin Peterson

“The American people want to have trust in their leaders.”

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Author:David Plouffe

“I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.”

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Author:Eckhard Pfeiffer

“Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.”

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Author:George Papandreou

“How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?”

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Author:George Papandreou

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

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Author:Michael Porter

“Governor Romney has a record of tremendous accomplishments. But he never asks for accolades. He just asks, 'How can I help?' That's the mark of a true leader: A humble focus on getting the job done.”

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Author:Reince Priebus

“Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007.”

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Author:Russell Pearce

“The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.”

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Author:Angela Ruggiero

“Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door.”

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Author:Dennis A. Ross

“I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.”

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Author:Stuart Rose

“If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.”

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Author:Stuart Rose

“Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.”

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Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the point where they forget about freedom. Everybody's got their drama going.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.”

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Author:Johann Lamont

“As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.”

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Author:John B. Larson

“The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.”

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Author:Leonard Slatkin

“I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.”

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Author:Navjot Singh Sidhu

“I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders.”

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Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“Religious and spiritual leaders should be held accountable for environmental activism, not only because they have access to large communities and can influence votes but because service is integral to religious and spiritual life.”

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Author:Radhanath Swami

“Our society, our culture - the greatness of America - goes hand-in-hand with energy, and our leaders need to wake up. We need energy, OK?”

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Author:Rick Santelli

“Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.”

Leader Ambition

Author:Ruth Simmons

“We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!”

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Author:Richard Trumka

“Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.”

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Author:Don Tapscott

“Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.”

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Author:Don Tapscott

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