Richard Nixon Quotes

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
Richard Nixon

Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet. Richard Nixon

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
Richard Nixon

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
Richard Nixon


In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
Richard Nixon

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
Richard Nixon

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
Richard Nixon

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Richard Nixon

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard Nixon

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Richard Nixon

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
Richard Nixon

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
Richard Nixon

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
Richard Nixon

Management and Leadership Quotes

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Never . . . Never . . . Never . . . Never Give up! - Winston Churchill

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
St. Augustine

A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore M. Hesburgh

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
Lao-Tzu

We will either find a way or make one.
Hannibal

What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Sophocles

The question, 'Who ought to be boss?', is like asking, 'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
Henry Ford

Leaders are like eagles. They don't flock, you find one at a time.

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
The Bible

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
John Welch