Quotes about Leadership

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.

I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.

In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.

I didn't want to be like everyone else. I wanted to be better. If I did what everybody else did, then why would you look up to me? Why would I set an example?

You're not a leader if you haven't been elected.

Locally, I'll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

Bill Ayers, Frank Marshall Davis, Edward Said, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, and Jeremiah Wright. This is a group I've previously called "Obama's founding fathers.

Notice that the GOP program—articulated by Douglass and affirmed by black leaders—is none other than the color-blind ideal outlined in Martin Luther King's famous "dream." King envisioned a society in which we are judged by the content of our character, not the color of our skin. This is substantially what Douglass and other black Republicans called for, more than a century earlier.

Nearly every human being is looking for a guide (or guides) to help them win the day.

Here's a thing I've noticed: the greatest leaders, the ones who impact the world the most, are somehow able to turn the other cheek. It's as though they believe so solidly in love, so robustly in forgiveness, they have the ability to forgive and even love those who attack them.

Customers trust a guide who has a plan.