Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Quotes

Leaders are people who ‘walk ahead,’ people genuinely committed to deep changes, in themselves and in their organizations.

Members of the rising new generation! The future is yours. The republic has been founded by us. It is up to you to guard and exalt it.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

Organizational changes to fix the problems usually create new vulnerabilities in the process of fixing the old ones.

The problem with communicating without a coordinator is that everyone has to read everyone else's mind.

I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.

When the President makes something a priority, we see action.

An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper company culture will help you get your company to do what you want in certain important areas for a very long time.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.

Bloody revolutions are solid; bloodless ones are not permanent. But we have shed sufficient blood to come to this revolution. It has been shed not only on battlefields, but within the country…There have been many risings, all of which have been suppressed. Let us hope that there will be no more bloodshed. The first duty of our educated people is to enlighten and guide the opponents of our happy revolution.

Even the bones of their dead should be dug up and scattered.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Leadership requires that we challenge the conventional wisdom.

The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control.

And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

Each of us have to decide whether we’re going to be a force for progress or an obstacle to progress.

Religion is a fraud, but it must be maintained for the masses.

We … need education in the obvious – to learn to transcend our own convictions and to leave room for much that we hold dear to be done away with short of revolution by the orderly change of law.

Philosophers have interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it