#leadership

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#city #destiny #leadership #our #preparing

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. ↗

— J. P. Morgan

#always #anything #doing #good #good reason

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#earth #ends #even #follow #get

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#ceo #certain #demands #different #exponentially

We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction. ↗

— Martin O'Malley

#go #growth #had #happened #hasn

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States. ↗

— John Olver

#bush #choice #civilian #conduct #cost

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me. ↗

— George Osborne

#chancellor #closest #closest thing #ever #experience

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#about #attributes #being #defined #effective

I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#american #anchor #been #i #importance

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#clear #go #iraq #leadership #needed