leadership Quotes

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.'

What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.

Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby.