Quotes about Leadership

I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president.

A ruler who is loved is greater than a ruler who is feared.

Many ministers are more the church's institutional managers than its theological guides; correspondingly, many read more management ("leadership") books than they do works of academic theology.

To change the world, we need an "I have a dream" speech, not an "I have a complaint" speech.

A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.

the world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.

Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before arriving.

The leaders in every walk of life decide quickly, and firmly. That is the major reason why they are leaders. The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.

You are the master of your fate, the captain of your soul.

Leadership calls for POWER, and power calls for COOPERATION.

We who desire to accumulate riches, should remember the real leaders of the world always have been men who harnessed, and put into practical use, the intangible, unseen forces of unborn opportunity, and have converted those forces, [or impulses of thought], into sky-scrapers, cities, factories, airplanes, automobiles, and every form of convenience that makes life more pleasant.

There is no hope of success for the person who repels people through a negative personality. Success comes through the application of POWER, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people. A negative personality will not induce cooperation.