Famous Quotes

"Leaders grasp nettles."

David Ogilvy on Leadership

More quotes about Leadership

• "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

  Henry Ford on Leadership

• "A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership

• "It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership."

  Nelson Mandela on Leadership

• "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

  Lao Tzu on Leadership

• "Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."

  Colin Powell on Leadership

More quotes by David Ogilvy

• "The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years."

• "I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information."

• "The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible."

• "Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon."

• "The consumer isn't a moron she is your wife."