Leadership quotes

“If there were gangs around like in the old days, I'd be running things, not you. You'd be second lieutenant. You might have gotten by for a while on the Motorcycle Boy's rep, but you have to be smart to run things. You ain't got your brother's brains. It's nothing personal, Rusty James, but nobody would follow you into a fight because you'd get...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nicolas Cage - Smokey

“Face it, Will, I'm your mentor. And you're the bad seed.”

Cary Elwes - Det. Nick Ruskin

“My mom always says that being boss and being bossy aren't the same.”
Lea Thompson - Kathryn Fairly

- Little Caesar, alias "Rico": I've taken orders from you too long.
- Sam Vettori: You'll keep on taking orders too or you'll get out of here so fast...
- Little Caesar, alias "Rico": Maybe it won't be me that gets out.
Edward G. Robinson - Little Caesar, alias "Rico"
Stanley Fields - Sam Vettori

“- Sassy: It's like I said all along, poopsie: cats rule and dogs drool.
- Chance: Get a life. Get nine of them.
- Sassy: But it's true. Cats are smarter than dogs, and more attractive... and we don't drink from the toilet!”
Sally Field - Sassy
Michael J. Fox - Chance

“He's barely qualified to run a brothel much less a country.”

Alexander Siddig - Prince Nasir Al-Subaai

“You'll get us out? Your leadership skills couldn't get us out of a T-shirt!”

Pam Dawber - Helen Knable

“- Mr. Tipton, the camp owner: Have you ever held a leadership position?
- Ernest P. Worrell: I had a ant farm once.”
Larry Black - Mr. Tipton, the camp owner
Jim Varney - Ernest P. Worrell

“- Bligh: But you're taking my ship. My ship!
- Christian: Your ship? The King's ship, you mean! And you're not fit to command it! Into the boat!”

Charles Laughton - Bligh
Clark Gable - Christian

“I'm in charge here. Not them, not Harper; I'm in command. You follow me.”

Sean Bean - Sharpe

“This is battle! And battle is a highly fluid situation. You plan on your contingencies, and I have. You keep your initiative, and I will. But what you don't do is share command! It's never a good idea!”

John Travolta - Vic Deakins

“Every organization needs somebody standin' out front. Call it a figurehead, a leader, a headman, a kingpin, a president, whatever.”
Christian Slater - Charlie 'Lucky' Luciano

“Your leadership has raised the stakes of hate to a level where we can no longer separate the demagogue from the truly inspired. And believe this, there are traitors among us.”
Jeff Bridges - President Jackson Evans

“- Cyrus: [yelling] Can you count, suckers? I say, the future is ours... if you can count!
- Cyrus: Now, look what we have here before us. We got the Saracens sitting next to the Jones Street Boys. We've got the Moonrunners right by the Van Cortlandt Rangers. Nobody is wasting nobody. That... is a miracle. And miracles is the way things ought to...” (continue)(continue reading)

Roger Hill - Cyrus

“- Princess Jehnna: I go where I feel myself led.
- Conan: So I've noticed.”
Olivia d'Abo - Princess Jehnna
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Conan

“An army without leaders is like a foot without a big toe.”
Bill Murray - John

“- Vice President Price: Hollis, there are a number of people who feel that we have problems right here on Earth that merit our attention before we spend billions on outer space.
- Hollis Peaker: There are a number of people who feel that there are no more pressing problems than our declining position in world leadership.”
James Karen - Vice President Price
David Huddleston - Hollis Peaker

“The drugs I took seemed to light up my brain. Suddenly I realized the power I held, the power to rule, to make the world grovel at my feet.”
Claude Rains - Dr. Jack Griffin aka The Invisible Man

“- Big Boy Caprice: Welcome to new waters, Dick! We're gonna run one hell of a ship with you aboard. There's a big world out there, and it's up for sale. All of it. All we gotta do is make sure that the people know I'm the one big enough to run it.
- Dick Tracy: And that you are guilty of attempting to bribe an officer of the law.”
Al Pacino - Big Boy Caprice
Warren Beatty - Dick Tracy

“The men must be led, not driven.”

Harvey Stephens - Lt. Martin