Quotes About Leadership

Am I a dog that you should come to me with sticks?

Montezuma's speech was not his surrender; it was his acceptance of a Spanish surrender.

Mission with LeMay

to succeed in the world he could not be just a dog whisperer. He needed to be a people whisperer.

I know how to ask for the money.' And that's the secret to the whole damn business.

The blindness of Chamberlain and Halifax and Henderson is not at all like Puzzle Number One, from the previous chapter. That was about the inability of otherwise intelligent and dedicated people to understand when they are being deceived. This is a situation where some people were deceived by Hitler and others were not. And the puzzle is that the group who were deceived are the ones you'd expect not to be, while those who saw the truth are the ones you'd think would be deceived.

Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision

Planes are safer when the least experienced pilot is flying, because it means the second pilot isn't going to be afraid to speak up.

I'd rather have somebody who is real stupid but did something—even if it's wrong he did something—than have somebody who'd vacillate and do nothing." That's what LeMay values.

Rarely does someone start a revolution alone, at his mother's kitchen table.

the least about him personally. The people who were wrong about Hitler were the ones who had talked with him for hours. This could all be a coincidence, of course. Perhaps Chamberlain and his cohort, for whatever private reason, were determined to see the Hitler they wanted to see, regardless of the evidence of their eyes and ears. Except that the same puzzling pattern crops up everywhere.

Solomon was faced day in, day out with a version of the same problem that had faced Neville Chamberlain and the British diplomatic service in the fall of 1938: he was asked

This kind of management system clearly has its risks. It meant Van Riper didn't always have a clear idea of what his troops were up to. It meant he had to place a lot of trust in his subordinates. It was, by his own admission, a messy way to make decisions. But it had one overwhelming advantage: allowing people to operate without having to explain themselves constantly turns out to be like the rule of agreement in improv. It enables rapid cognition.

I am the chief steward of my fate, I am the fireman of my soul.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

Success doesn't come instantly. Neither does the ability to lead.

Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.

Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.

State problems should involve state solutions.

Leaders who want to increase joy and success in the workplace must learn to take most of their personal satisfaction from the achievements of the people they lead, not from the power they exercise.

Unless you are able to influence the way others think and act, your chances for success are limited.

The quickest way to grow the sales of your business is to grow your people.

Your success is no longer about your ability to do what you are told, and do it well.

When you're educated, you must offer others a road to success.