leadership Quotes

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.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.