Monkey Business

A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte

The future of business is social. - Barry Libert

My strength lies solely in my tenacity. - Louis Pasteur

Leadership is a choice, not a position. - Stephen Covey

Good leaders must first become good servants. - Robert K Greenleaf

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

Fundamental honesty is the keystone of business. - Harvey S Firestone

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing. - Izaak Walton

It's every man's business to see justice done. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. - Woodrow Wilson

The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her. - Marcelene Cox

The surest way to make a monkey out of a man is to quote him. - Robert Benchley

Being positive in a negative situation is not naive, it's leadership. - Ralph Marston

The value of a leader is directly proportional to that leader's values. - Unknown

The visionary leader is an optimist, for no pessimist ever made a great leader. - William W Francis

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed. - Don Rickles

Leadership is not something you do to people; it is something you do for people. - Ken Blanchard

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance. - Brian Tracy

Leadership is at its best making promises to the people... and then keeping them. - Unknown

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' - Lao Tzu

Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves. - Maltbie D. Matlock

The best leaders incentivize, inspire and empower their teams to be creative and innovative. - Michael Bloomberg

Money itself doesn't interest me. But you must make money to go on building the business. - Rupert Murdoch

The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been. - Henry Kissinger

If a man's character is to be abused, there's nobody like a relative to do the business. - Alexander Pope

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process. - Rosa Luxemburg

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. - John C Maxwell

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men. - Dwight D Eisenhower

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them. - Carlos Ghosn

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team. - John C Maxwell

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. - John Buchan

The difference between being a manager and being a leader is that managers understand staff and leaders understand people. - Peter Legge

My father was a baker and a lot of people do what their families did and I could have done that but I wanted to stay in show business. - Christopher Walken

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. - Stephen Covey

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. - Nelson Mandela

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up. - Ralph Bunche

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama

Integrity will take a leader farther than any other quality. If you would travel far and do much as a leader, never compromise your integrity. - John C Maxwell

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. - Colin Powell