Quotes About Leadership

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

I've always believed that if women could only collectively harness the power that they have then they'd rule the world.

Narcissistic leaders. The ultimate weapon of mass destruction is a state. When a state is taken over by a leader with the classic triad of narcissistic symptoms—grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy—the result can be imperial adventures with enormous human costs.

we all have a number of executive subselves, and the only way we manage to accomplish anything in life is to allow only one subself to take the conscious driver's seat at any given time.

To set high goals, to have almost unattainable aspirations, to imbue people with the belief that they can be achieved—these are as important as the balance sheet, perhaps more

American Telephone & Telegraph, the largest company of them all,

when the role of dissenter is left to the Fool, there may be trouble ahead for everybody.

The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

Remove a dictator and watch chaos grow.

How do you become First in command, when you're second in command? You kill the guy that's first in command!

And we think more like managers, whose task is to do things right, than as leaders, whose task is to do the right thing.

But luck is never enough. The leader needs to be ready when opportunity knocks. It is sad when we don't get any breaks in this life, and sadder still when we don't recognize them when they make their appearance. But the saddest thing of all is not to have readied ourselves to make the most of them.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

Why is Old Jack a better general than Moses?" was the question they liked to ask. "Because it took Moses forty years to lead the Israelites through the wilderness," the answer went, "and Old Jack would have double-quicked them through in three days."10

Apparently these new rulers of the world did not indulge in any drinking or smoking to soften their moods when they met, which Menelaus knew to be a big mistake. The Congress of the United States, back before the Disunion, always met sober, and look at what had come of that.

And ye peoples, to whom God gave the liberty to choose your own magistrates, see to it, that ye do not forfeit this favor, by electing to the positions of highest honor, rascals and enemies of God.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.