Leadership Quotes
“Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.”
“Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.”
-- Marian Anderson
“In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.”
-- Bill Kristol
“It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.”
-- Ruth J. Simmons
“You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.”
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”
-- Henry A. Kissinger