True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high-school class is running the country. —Kurt Vonnegut More about this quote Tags: fear power humor leadership terror peers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. —John Quincy Adams More about this quote Tags: inspiration accomplishment leadership Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. —George Burns More about this quote Tags: politics knowledge certainty leadership Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that a people get the kind of political leadership they deserve. I think they also get the kinds of crime and criminals they themselves bring into being. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Tags: politics crime leadership Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. —Dwight D. Eisenhower More about this quote Tags: humor people leadership Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. —Ray Kroc More about this quote Tags: ethics leadership standards Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. —Mother Teresa More about this quote Tags: action leadership waiting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man — these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. . . . History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own. —Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. More about this quote Tags: history society heroism dignity leadership surrender decision submission hero worship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What luck for rulers that men do not think. —Adolf Hitler More about this quote Tags: leadership Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. —Casey Stengel More about this quote Tags: leadership Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me. —Dwight D. Eisenhower More about this quote Tags: leadership Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The crowd gives the leader new strength. —George Goethals More about this quote Tags: leadership Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. —John F. Kennedy More about this quote Tags: leadership Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. —Lee Iacocca More about this quote Tags: leadership Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people. —Peter Drucker More about this quote Tags: leadership Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email