Famous Quotes

"We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there."

Wilson Greatbatch 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 Wilson Greatbatch

• "When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place."

• "Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option."