Nancy Reagan Quotes

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

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.

Leaders often find themselves temporarily alone.

When you're the boss, you have no one else to turn to.

The presidency is probably the loneliest office in America. Regardless of your friends, regardless of how good your marriage is, regardless of anything, you are alone there at the top.

The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King - and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.

Decision-making is lonely.

The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

Directing can be very lonely and quite intimidating.

I think it would be so much fun to be in the White House.

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

The White House Chief of Staff must always remember that he is staff and not chief.

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.

I don't particularly want to be in the White House.

I think that there is an element where leadership is lonely, but I also believe that it doesn't have to be like that.

When you have the ball in your hand, you're the most important guy in the whole organization.

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.

Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.