Quotes About Leadership

The greatest responsibility of a commander was not to command, but to look like he knew how to.

He glanced at the mayhem beyond the walls. "The time has come for someone to nobly sacrifice themselves. In the absence of anyone better qualified… it will have to be me.

The general with the smallest numbers should remain always on the offensive.

Primero nos lo hacen a nosotros, luego nosotros se lo hacemos a los demás y finalmente ordenamos a otros que lo hagan

Szörnyen vékony a határvonal aközött, ha valakit vezérként emelnek a magasba, meg aközött, ha akasztott emberként kerül a többiek fölé.

A great leader must share the hardships of his followers, of his soldiers, of his subjects. That is how he wins their respect. Great leaders do not complain. Not ever." "Fuck them then," muttered Jezal under his breath. "And this rain, too!

And now the King is dead. Who knows who will replace him? Voting for a monarch! Have you ever heard of such a thing?

Leo saw now that his father had been wrong. It's after the battle. That's when a man finds out who he truly is. He was no hero. He never had been. He was a fool. A great bloated tower of vanity. It had got his friends, his allies and hundreds who'd followed him killed. Now it would get him killed, too.

We are leaders. War is what happens when we fail. Or are pushed into failure by the rash and the foolish. Victory is better than defeat, but… not by much.

A man in charge can't have men putting questions. Just can't have it. They come with questions first, then they come with knives.

Jezal was beginning to doubt that anyone in a position of high authority ever really knew what they were doing. The best one could hope for was to maintain some shred of an illusion that one might.

A king was just a kind of bin for all the blame to go in.

As commander of a battalion his trade had been to fight the enemy with steel. As a staff officer, it seemed, his role was to fight his own side with paper, more secretary than soldier. He felt like a man trying to push a huge stone up a hill. Straining and straining, getting nowhere, but unable to stop pushing in case the rock should fall and crush him. Meanwhile, arrogant bastards who were in just the same danger lazed on the slopes beside him saying, "Well, it's not my rock.

You pick your Chief, you pick your side, you pick your crew and then you stand by 'em, whatever the wind blows up.

Command was a trick. You had to spread the illusion that you knew what you were doing as deep and as wide through your men as you could. Spread the illusion and hope for the best.

The people far prefer a leader who appears great, Bialoveld wrote, to one who is.

Great folk are great 'cause they plant new footsteps. Not 'cause they blunder through the same mistakes some other bastards made.

But far as I can tell it ain't that simple. Right things, wrong things, well… it's all a matter of where you stand. Every choice is good for some, bad for others. And once you're chief, you can't just do what's good for you, or those you love. You have to find what's best for most. Worst for fewest.

A good leader can't dwell on the choices he's made, Threetrees used to tell him, and a good leader can't help dwelling on 'em.

Being in charge can seem like a thing iron-forged, but in the end it's just an idea everyone agrees to. By

What proof could there be, after all? A birthmark on Luthar's arse in the shape of a crown? Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. And most of us would far rather have a king with no friends and no enemies, than a king with plenty of both. Most of us would rather have things stay as they are, than risk an uncertain future.

What happens now?' 'The people will decide,' said Pike. Orso glanced about him. At the people. 'Really?' He gave a puzzled smile. 'Are they equipped for that?

The vast majority of men would far rather be told what to do than make their own choices. Obedience is easy.

Government by committee! Everyone pulling their own way! You can only react, never prepare!