Leadership Reluctance Quotes

If I am nominated [for the presidency], I will not run. If I am elected, I will not serve. But if you beg me, I just might reconsider.

It's a lot easier to let someone else be Caesar.

I'm not going to manage again. I'm going to work for a team someday. But it won't be managing.

I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair.

The kind of people we want to be President don’t want to run.

No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly I did not.

I did not want to go anywhere where I would be interim.

I've been around racing a fairly long time, but when it comes to the important issues, I'm happy to let others make the big decisions.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.

I ascribe to Mark Twain's theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

I have been a chief only because my father wished it. I always would have preferred to be married and have a family like other women.

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

I didn't want to be president of the World Wildlife Fund. I was asked to do it. I'd much rather have stayed in the navy, frankly.

In his wolf-skin he was as strong as any of them, but he was a gentle person in many ways. He'd feel so bad about failing he'd probably step aside for someone else without a fight.

I think anybody can relate to the reluctance to have to lead sometimes.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.