Quotes About Leadership

If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?" If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.

Had a long talk to the Chinese First Secretary at the embassy a very charming man called Liao Dong and said how much I admired Mao Tse tung or Zedong, the greatest man of the twentieth century. He said that I couldn't admire Mao more than he did. I asked him how Mao was viewed now. He said Mao was 70 per cent right and 30 per cent wrong; the Cultural Revolution didn't work. He said he had been named after Mao it was amusing.

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

Brown responded that he could not conceive of recommending that Britain join the Euro to advance his own prospects at the expense of the economic interest of the country

Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.

The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.

Unscrupulous leaders can manipulate this mechanism in whole populations. Adolf Hitler, for example, repeatedly described the Jews as Untermenschen (subhumans) and through the skilful use of propaganda was able to induce enough Germans to project their shadow on to them as to make the Holocaust possible. The

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

If Churchill recommends optimism, who are you or I to quibble?

States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten."

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

There is no more powerful skill for success in any field than knowing how to ask the right questions.

Francis ascended the stairs without slowing, calling for Marcus and Andrea before he'd reached the top. Then he was gone. If he'd clocked Jeff at all, it was only to verify that someone was behind the desk.

If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go.

As ever in a crisis, Marie Antoinette showed herself the forceful one who nonetheless could not bring herself finally to impose her will.

Hay algún enemigo del "pueblo", aparte del "pueblo" mismo?

En ningún otro campo profesional se puede llegar más lejos careciendo de cualquier cualificación, conocimiento o habilidad verificable. Se puede dirigir un hospital y hasta ser ministro de sanidad sin tener la menor noción de medicina, y ocupar un puesto de alto rango en la política internacional sin hablar ningún idioma extranjero.

Nepaisant vis? baimi? ir laikinumo, gal vejami nekaltumo, o gal biologini? d?sni? buvome pasaulio valdovais.