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.”
“We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.”
-- Marco Rubio
“No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.”
-- Peter Drucker
“Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.”
-- Pete Domenici
“I definitely wasn't cool in high school. I really wasn't. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things.”
-- Dianna Agron
“Not everybody is created equal, and it's important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.”
-- Anne M. Mulcahy
“Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.”
-- Daisaku Ikeda