Quotes on Leader

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their leaders to fulfill the pledges made to reduce world poverty, especially in Africa, by the year 2015.

We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. And we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes of the war, for our position is that no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy.

If you can become the leader you ought to be on the inside, you will be able to become the person you want on the outside. People will want to follow you. And when that happens, you'll be able to tackle anything in this world.

In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues.

You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us.

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.

Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.

If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside

A leader's job is not just to get the best out of their people-a leader's job is to make more leaders.

A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.

When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.