Leadership Quotes

"Women are the real architects of society" "Practice golden rule management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed." "Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people." "Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done, and then to get others to want to do it." "Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America." "The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best" "It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong" "I would like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country" "Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission." "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being " "An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere" "In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits." "The best morale exists when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy" "I would rather try to persuade a man to go along because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him he will stay just as long as he is scared and then he is gone" "I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem and that yardstick is Is it good for America" "You don’t lead by hitting people over the head that’s assault, not leadership" "The leader must be an actor" "No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair" "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier" "Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results"