Quotes About Leadership

Responsibility is something you actively agree to. You make a commitment to ensure that something is done right, but you don't necessarily have direct control over every aspect of it.

Grace Hopper: It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

Even if there's a fire raging (deadline, release date, trade show demo, etc.), you don't want to be the first one to make a mess.

we work daily within our teams to advocate our ideas, modify existing practices, and suggest new ones.

The more effective that communication, the more influential you become.

Unless you work in a vacuum, you need to be able to communicate. The more effective that communication, the more influential you become.

Show them a glimpse of the future and you'll get them to rally around.

As a turning point, the Bay of Pigs deserves comparison with 9/11 - a moment that created an opening to pose first-order questions, but elicited instead an ill-conceived, reflexive response. As would Johnson, Carter, and George W. Bush, Kennedy in 1961 squandered an opportunity to rethink and reorient U.S. policy, with fateful implications.

What is most striking about the most powerful man in the world is not the power that he wields. It is how constrained he and his lieutenants are by forces that lie beyond their grasp and perhaps their understanding.

For a democracy committed to being a great military power, its leaders professing to believe that war can serve transcendent purposes, the allocation of responsibility for war qualifies as a matter of profound importance.

as the Age of Bush gave way to the Era of Obama, little of substance changed. That was the greatest irony of all.

Like the present-day GOP, the Northern Alliance was a loose coalition of unsavory opportunists, interested chiefly in acquiring power.

If you really want to make a million, the quickest way is to start your own religion.

I spoke of an Army on the point of entering an enemy's territories. Answering the question as to the cause of delay: 'Waiting for supplies.' The answer might also have been: 'Waiting for instructions, 'Waiting for orders.' If the last dispatch had not been received, with the final orders of the commander in chief, the army dared not move. Even so in the Christian life - as deep as the need of waiting for supplies is that of waiting for instructions.

We ask God to bless our feeble efforts, instead of absolutely refusing to go unless God goes before us.

It is the one who does what God commands to whom God can entrust His work, whom God can use to be a type of savior to others.

He chiefly used when speaking of the relations of the disciples to Himself was: Follow me. When about

Master reverses

I am at the head of a station, with a large outlying district to care for. I see the importance of much prayer, and yet my life hardly leaves room for it. Are we to submit? Or tell us how we can attain to what we desire.

Very few institutions thrive when they are left solely to "professionals," people who have made it their life's work to master a given domain of culture.

It's not hard to figure out who has the power in any large gathering in our mediated culture: they are the ones with a microphone, their image projected larger than life above the crowd.

ALL HAIL THE NEW ORDER!' chanted the crowd. It was a truly grotesque sight.

The best part of my new job was finally running my own show and no longer having to answer to people like [Chris Kimsington].

Then Judah his son, who was called Maccabaeus, took command in [Mattathias's] place. All his brothers and all who had joined his father helped