Leader Quotes

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

Business, Changing, Chances

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.
Judy Biggert

Future, Energy, Economic

The leader is the person who brings a little magic to the moment.
Denise Morrison

Person, Moment, Magic

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.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Done, Prophet, Operate

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

Time, Country, Wrong

Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader.
Jim Talent

Government, Business, Experience

Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.
Park Geun-hye

Trust, Two, Between

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

Great, Battle, Two

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.
Marty Meehan

Leadership, Moral, Used

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

Yourself, Else, Anyone

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.
Stone Gossard

Control, Process, Band

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.
Norm Coleman

Live, Political, Real

Going to the Olympics as a Maasai I want to make them proud because, after the warm welcome they gave me when I went back and being their leader, I want to also be the warrior in the Olympics. That will be something good because that will be the first Olympic gold medal for the Maasai.
David Rudisha

Good, After, Proud

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.
Pranab Mukherjee

Family, Politics, Freedom

I'm not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.
Darrell Hammond

Work, Sure, Clown

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.
Robert Dale Owen

Great, Men, Follow

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.
Edward Tufte

Great, Beautiful, Writing

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.
Richard V. Allen

Power, Team, Another

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.
Richard V. Allen

Person, Team, Faithful

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.
Bill Owens

Perhaps, Obligation, Solemn

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

Leadership, Powerful, Lead

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.
Tracy Kidder

Hope, Help, Book

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

Revolution, Cannot, Around

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

State, Industry, Continued

I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.
Daniel Hannan

Health, Care, Support

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.
James T. Walsh

Change, Peace, Social

I think the thing that makes 'NCIS' so special is the team and the group. And there's our fearless leader, Mark Harmon. We all really enjoy working together, so it would be a shame if we weren't all there having fun together.
Michael Weatherly

Fun, Together, Enjoy

I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.
Susan Wojcicki

Work, Women, Great

What's important is that I do my job really well, that I build great products and that I'm a great leader. All those things matter independent of gender. But I do think there's a responsibility for me to support other women at Google.
Susan Wojcicki

Women, Great, Job

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.
Agnes Smedley

Small, Understand, Another

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