Irvine Welsh Quotes

Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.

Leadership requires the ability to engage and to create empathy for communities with disparate needs and ideas. Telling an effective story - especially in romantic suspense - demands a similar skill set.

Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.

Obama may be brilliant, but he's not a leader.

I don't believe that being an inspiring leader is a goal that you can aspire to. It is a by-product.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Barack Obama is the worst President in history.

You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.

My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!

Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

Believe it or not, the first spark for everything I've done today came down to me meeting one person in college who changed my life. A student named Anthony Adams who lived across the hall from me in our freshman dorm showed me what it meant to be an 'entrepreneur' when I saw him launch his own start-up company.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll.

Governor Blanco is like Packman without the looks.

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something that people want.

The President is an idiot.

Kennedy understood something that is not so obvious, and that is that words are more important than deeds. You can’t govern 300 million people—or 180 million when Kennedy was president—by doing things. You can only do it by rhetoric.

Sometimes people invent things because they want to stay alive or feed their children or conquer the village next door. But just as often, new ideas come into the world simply because they're fun. And here's the really strange thing: many of those playful but seemingly frivolous inventions ended up sparking momentous transformations in science, in politics and society.

I've tried to say that I admire and respect Sen. Obama. He has accomplished great things, and he has motivated people, and so - and he loves his country, just as I do.

Leadership is... to make sure you never limit the idea or opportunity.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

I've got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill. There is no easy comparison with any modern politician. The more you read about him, the more completely amazed you are about what he did - his energy, his literary fecundity, his ability to work - just unbelievable energy.

I have interacted with several top leaders. Modi is among the three smartest leaders I have met.

I - look, I, you know, I find Donald Trump completely un-presidential, unacceptable. I don't like his methods. I don't think he's got any policies.

I think Caesar is one of the most empathetic characters that I've played. I think that's the key to a successful leadership. Being able to keep your ears open at all times.