Leadership Quotes
“World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.”
“I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.”
-- Lee Iacocca
“I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.”
-- Benjamin Carson
“A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.”
-- Henry A. Kissinger
“Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.”
-- Peer Steinbruck
“I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.”
-- E. P. Thompson