Leadership Quotes

“Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.”

-- Chester Irving Barnard

“Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.”

-- Christie Hefner

“We need leadership, and we need it now.”

-- Byron Dorgan

“I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.”

-- Dalton McGuinty

“I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive.”

-- Kay Bailey Hutchison

“I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.”

-- Vernon Jordan

“We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.”

-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

“Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.”

-- Terry Semel

“Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.”

-- John P. Kotter

“I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?”

-- Zbigniew Brzezinski