#leadership

Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#answer #class #cliff #courage #crisis

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#about #big #generally #make #mistakes

If there were only success in your life, you would not learn anything. Leadership is experience and you are still young. You still have much to learn about our people and war; it should not come easy to you. If it did, you would be robbed of life's most valuable teacher. ↗

— Rachel Higginson

#gabriel #leadership #experience

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring, ↗

— Alister E. McGrath

#leadership #passion #inspirational

Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#american #approaches #boone #bringing #commended

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#asset #comes #foreign #foreign policy #going

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#change #country #had #isolationism #leadership

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#besides #contribution #creative #creative spirit #enough

We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us. ↗

— Randy Hultgren

#conservative #entitlement #experience #lead #leadership

Leadership does not depend on being right. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#depend #does #leadership #right