Quotes About Leadership

A world is supported by four things…." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing…." She closed her fingers into a fist. "…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that

A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors.

It was easy to believe that warning in this place. One word from Leto and these women would tear an offender to pieces. They would not question. They would act. Idaho began to feel a new appreciation of these women as an army. Personal peril would not stop them. They served God!

Leto spoke the truth: Muad'Dib had changed all that. Stilgar felt lost.

Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob.

Is that the name you wish, Muad'Dib?" Stilgar asked. "I am an Atreides," Paul whispered, and then louder: "It's not right that I give up entirely the name my father gave me. Could I be known among you as Paul-Muad'Dib?" "You are Paul-Muad'Dib," Stilgar said. And

They've lost the initiative, which means they've lost the war." Gurney

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

We should grant power over our affairs only to those reluctant to hold it, and only under conditions that increase that reluctance.

The problem with leadership is that leaders are human beings. And when they make mistakes, their mistakes are amplified by the numbers who follow without question.

Your own emperor bestowed Arrakis on House Atreides. I am House Atreides." The

She didn't like the fact that people of both sietch and graben referred to Muad'Dib as Him.

Alzó cuatro nudosos dedos—: la erudición de los sabios, la justicia de los poderosos, las plegarias de los justos y el coraje de los valerosos. Pero eso no vale nada... —Cerró los dedos en un puño— sin un gobernante que conozca el arte de gobernar.

O poder costuma isolar aqueles que o detêm em demasia. Por fim, acabam perdendo o contato com a realidade... e tombam.

La influencia de la política en el seno de una religión ortodoxa es inevitable. La lucha por el poder impregna el adiestramiento, la educación y la disciplina de una comunidad ortodoxa. Debido a esa presión, los jefes de una comunidad así deben afrontar inevitablemente un claro dilema interior: sucumbir al más completo oportunismo como precio para mantener su poder o arriesgarse al autosacrificio en nombre de la ética ortodoxa.

Our supremacy on Caladan," the Duke said, "depended on sea and air power. Here, we must develop something I choose to call desert power.

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern.

Among my father's most important messages were that governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.

A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors." "And good administrators?

Existe un límite a la fuerza que hasta los más poderosos pueden aplicar sin destruirse a sí mismos. Calcular dicho límite es el auténtico arte de gobernar. El mal uso del poder es un pecado fatal. La ley no puede ser un instrumento de venganza, nunca un rehén y tampoco un refugio contra los mártires que ha creado. Uno no puede amenazar a un individuo y librarse de las consecuencias. Muad'Dib sobre la ley, Comentarios de Stilgar

Often, the most important piece of information is that something has gone wrong. Bad administrators hide their mistakes until it's too late to make corrections.

She asked me to tell her what it is to rule," Paul said. "And I said that one commands. And she said I had some unlearning to do.

She had led him from the command post into a chilly night canopied with stars like stone-edged facets of shattered brilliants.

There is enough water! But Kynes doesn't wish it to be known.