Quotes About Leadership

The group made the salesman aware in no uncertain terms that his tendency to avoid problem-solving by ignoring a problem in the hope that it would go away was in itself his major problem.

One type of slave-owner does not discipline his slaves, gives them no structure, sets them no limits, provides them with no direction and does not make it clear who is the boss. What happens, of course, is that in due time his slaves stop working and begin moving into the mansion, raiding the liquor cabinet and breaking the furniture, and soon the slave-owner finds that he is the slave of his slaves, living

Love is not simply giving; it is judicious giving and judicious withholding as well. It is judicious praising and judicious criticizing. It is judicious arguing, struggling, confronting, urging, pushing and pulling in addition to comforting. It is leadership. The word 'judicious' means requiring judgment, and judgment requires more than instinct; it requires thoughtful and often painful decision making.

Colombo não o teve maior, descobrindo a América, e perdoai a banalidade em favor do cabimento; com efeito, há em cada adolescente um mundo encoberto, um almirante e um sol de outubro.

O major, porém, continuava a andar com aquele passo rápido dos majores que andam depressa.

Un prince qui n'est pas sage par lui-même ne peut être bien conseillé

Mais comment un prince pourra connaître son ministre, voici un moyen qui ne trompe jamais: quand tu vois le ministre penser plus à soi qu'à toi et que dans toutes les affaires il recherche là-dedans son profit, un tel homme ainsi fait jamais ne sera bon ministre, jamais tu ne te pourras fier à lui.

De là naît une dispute: s'il est meilleur d'être aimé que craint, ou l'inverse. On répond qu'on voudrait être l'un et l'autre; mais comme il est difficile de les marier ensemble, il est beaucoup plus sûr d'être craint qu'aimé, quand on doit manquer de l'un des 2.

From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both.

Ä°nsanlar?n gönlünü hoÅŸ tutmal? ya da onlar? yok etmelidir çünkü insanlar uÄŸrad?klar? küçük zararlar?n öcünü al?rlar büyük zararlar?n öcünü alamazlar bu yüzden insana verilecek zarar intikam korkusu yaratmayacak biçimde olmal?d?r

BaÅŸkas?n?n güçlenmesinin nedeni olan kiÅŸi kendi y?k?m?na yol açar çünkü o güç ya becerinin ya zor kullanman?n sonucudur ve güçlü hale gelmiÅŸ kiÅŸi için bu iki nitelik de kuÅŸkuludur

unutmamak gerekir ki yeni bir düzen getirmeye kalk??maktan daha zor, baÅŸar? olas?l??? daha kuÅŸkulu, yönetilmesi daha tehlikeli bir ÅŸey yoktur; çünkü eski düzenden ç?kar? olan herkes yeni düzeni getirene düÅŸman kesilir, yeni düzenden ç?kar? olabilecek kiÅŸiler ise ancak ?l?ml? birer müttefiktir.

Krall?k etmek için bir krall?k d???nda hiçbir eksiÄŸi yoktu. (Quod nihil illi deerat ad regnandum praeter regnum)

Não se pode definir como virtude a matança dos próprios concidadãos, a traição aos amigos e a demonstração de falta de lealdade, de piedade, de consciência e de ideal moral: Essas práticas podem conquistar o poder ao príncipe, nunca a glória.

A prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice.

Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves.

no one should marvel at the ease with which Alexander [the Great] kept possession of Asia, or at the difficulties which others, like Pyrrhus and many more, had in preserving their conquests. The difference does not arise from the greater or lesser ability of the conqueror, but from dissimilarities in the conquered lands.

And you have to understand this, that a prince, especially a new one, cannot observe all those things for which men are esteemed, being often forced, in order to maintain the state, to act contrary to faith, friendship, humanity, and religion. " The Prince, XVIII, 5

This raises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the contrary. My reply is that I would like to be both but as it is difficult to combine love and fear, if one has to choose between them it is far safer to be feared than loved

It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to handle, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes in a state's constitution. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new.

It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.

For, although one may be very strong in armed forces, yet in entering a province one has always need of the goodwill of the natives.

The dictatorship did not elate me, nor did exile depress me.

Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.