Quotes About Leadership

ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!

The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.

Leadership and our dependence on it (how and why we choose particular leaders) is a much misunderstood historical phenomenon.

You see, we often get noncreative leaders, people most interested in preserving their own positions. They flock around centers of power. Such centers attract people who can be corrupted. That is a more descriptive observation than to say simply that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

It requires good government. That does not depend upon laws or precedent, but upon the personal qualities of whoever governs.

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders. —LAW AND GOVERNANCE THE SPACING GUILD MANUAL

Battle of Corrin.

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals

One of the hardest things for a tyrant to find is people who actually make decisions.

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

Never follow a leader without asking your own questions.

Only the puppet masters were important. How the puppets moved—that told you what the puppet masters were doing.

Good administrators make immediate choices." "Acceptable choices?" "They usually can be made to work. A bad administrator, on the other hand, hesitates, diddles around, asks for committees, for research and reports. Eventually, he acts in ways which create serious problems.

Bons súditos devem sentir culpa. A culpa começa como uma sensação de fracasso. O bom autocrata fornece muitas oportunidades de fracasso para o seu povo.

Paul strode through the main entrance with Gurney Halleck and Stilgar a pace behind. Their escort fanned out into the Great Hall, straightening the place and clearing an area for Muad'Dib. One squad began investigating that no sly trap had been planted here.

Ja! Y pensaba que ibas a decirme algo nuevo. Eso ya lo sabemos: «El poder corrompe. El poder absoluto corrompe absolutamente.» —Falso, Dama. Algo más sutil pero mucho más penetrante: El poder atrae a lo corruptible.

Arrakis has it's own way determining who wears the mantle of authority,' Kynes said.

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La burocrazia distrugge l'iniziativa. Poche sono le cose che i burocrati odiano più delle innovazioni, specialmente quelle innovazioni che producano risultati migliori delle vecchie abitudini. I miglioramenti fanno sempre sembrare inetti quelli che sono in cima al mucchio. A chi piace sentirsi inetto?

And the race knew only one sure way for this—the ancient way, the tried and certain way that rolled over everything in its path: jihad.

Un líder es una de las cosas que diferencia a una turba de un pueblo. Es alguien que mantiene la individualidad. Cuando hay poca individualidad

Quem governa assume uma responsabilidade irrevogável pelos governados. Você é um fazendeiro. Isso exige, em certos momentos, um ato de amor altruísta que talvez pareça apenas divertido para aqueles a quem você governa.

Grave isto na memória, rapaz: um mundo é sustentado por quatro coisas... o conhecimento dos sábios, a justiça dos poderosos, a prece dos justos e a coragem dos bravos. Mas tudo isso de nada vale... sem um governante que conheça a arte de governar.