Leader Quotes

What good is music? None … and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and Leaders, music says, ‘You are irrelevant’; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, ‘

Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.

So I like the work he’s doing, and I support it, and I realise that he’s one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.

A Homeland, A State, A Leader.

People imitate their leader. Lead by example.

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

George Mitchell was a very good leader, and we were more than satisfied with his leadership. And I know the guys were jealous.

A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement.

A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.