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I hope you find these Ralph Nader Quotes inspiring and motivational.
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
Related topics: Motivational Business Leadership Success
I don't think meals have any business being deductible.
I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
- Ralph Nader
People are stunned to hear that one company has data
files on 185 million Americans.
- Ralph Nader
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
- Ralph Nader
Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
- Ralph Nader
Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore.
Our support comes from a lot of people.
- Ralph Nader
Once you don't vote your ideals...
that has serious undermining affects.
It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
- Ralph Nader
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
- Ralph Nader
When strangers start acting like neighbors...
communities are reinvigorated.
- Ralph Nader
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting
government off the backs of the people and now he demands
that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
- Ralph Nader
The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing
lobby whose calls nobody returns.
- Ralph Nader
No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without
condemning organized gambling.
- Ralph Nader
The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to
become a captive of corporate interests.
- Ralph Nader
This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations,
it is indentured to corporations.
- Ralph Nader
I start with the premise that the function of leadership
is to produce more leaders,
not more followers.
- Ralph Nader
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because
the oil industry does not own the sun.
- Ralph Nader
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry
has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
- Ralph Nader
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date,
and are rarely invoked.
- Ralph Nader
Every time I see something terrible,
it's like I see it at age 19.
I keep a freshness that way.
- Ralph Nader
The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed
to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.
- Ralph Nader
Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business
today is our big dirty secret.
- Ralph Nader
John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all,
you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
- Ralph Nader
This country has far more problems than it deserves
and far more solutions than it applies.
- Ralph Nader
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders,
not more followers.
- Ralph Nader
Your best teacher is your last mistake.
- Ralph Nader
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
- Ralph Nader
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic
parties is the velocities with which their knees hit
the floor when corporations knock on their door.
That's the only difference.
- Ralph Nader
Addiction should never be treated as a crime.
It has to be treated as a health problem.
We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country.
Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
- Ralph Nader
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
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus
but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along,
because once I have persuaded him, he will stick.
If I scare him, he will stay just as long
as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst 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 this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
USE this time of fresh beginnings.
Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change.
Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts.
Exert more influence over your dreams
by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
The glue that holds all relationships together -
including the relationship between; the leader and the led
is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
- Brian Tracy
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize.
The first is gentleness;
the second is frugality;
the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold;
be frugal and you can be generous;
avoid putting yourself before others
and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
- Margaret Fuller
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
- Steve Jobs
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
- Mary Kay Ash
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind
him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
- Walter Lippmann
I must follow the people.
Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him
a situation which common sense,
without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
- Walter Lippmann
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
- Tacitus
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss,
in the Republican Party he is a leader.
- Harry S. Truman
The task of the leader is to get his people from where
they are to where they have not been.
- Henry A. Kissinger
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
The last is to say thank you.
In between, the leader is a servant.
- Max de Pree
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out,
starting with himself.
- Blaine Lee
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.
All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
- Andre Maurois
The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy
was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of
things as you got more senior in your Navy career.
- Daniel J. Evans
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
- John C. Maxwell
I would not want to live in a country that would have
me as a leader in any sort of political bent.
- Tom Hanks
The real leader has no need to lead -
he is content to point the way.
- Henry Miller
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has
a long-range perspective.
- Warren G. Bennis
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness,
and he who is a leader must always act alone.
And acting alone, accept everything alone.
- Ferdinand Marcos
As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.
- John C. McGinley
I don't think we can go into important local elections next year...
with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of
the councillors we've got now.
- Frank Dobson
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer
to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
- Hartley William Shawcross
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame,
a little less than his share of the credit.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely,
thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people
who debate in narrow confines.
- Charles de Gaulle
And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top,
ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.
- Ernest Mandel
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority.
If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
- Newt Gingrich
Clearly, every company needs a leader.
That's an important part of being the CEO of the company.
- Sanjay Kumar
First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility -
which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's
to provide an alternative government.
- Stephen Harper
Any time the country is split 50/50,
the leader is wrong.
- Charles Evers
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