Quotes About Leadership

They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.

And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while.

I always tell everybody, if I can inspire one, they can inspire one more, and I can inspire a thousand later.

New York is celebrated as a leader in our nation's quest for progress because ours is a city built by the labor of a thousand different shades and accents.

I don't consider myself to be less than Jhansi ki Rani. In the Panipat war, she was a lone woman while she had thousands of enemies. Same way, even I have a thousand enemies in my fight. That was the war of Panipat, mine is the war of Ludhiana.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

In communism, the men who establish the commune plan its economy.

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

I didn't say I was going to find the Mad Monk." "But you will," he said, placing his worn and stained Stetson on his head. "You've got that look about you. "What look is that?" I asked, tired of his family maligning mine. "A Goodnight look?" "A responsible one." He adjusted his hat, in a motion I'd seen Ben make a dozen times that day, right before he drove home his point. "Like you're the girl who takes care of things. So take care of it, dammit.

The best way to beat the enemy is probably to go to their homeland. As our former leader Deng Xiaoping put it, we'll cross the river by touching the stones."49

Does one refuse to ride with an Emperor?' 'If one is wise, one does not.

it's time to stop reaching out to ministers. They're just not up to the task, and they don't know what they're talking about. I think this guy made that abundantly clear.

His students were intended to become a caste of capable citizens and inspired political leaders, men who were, as he hoped, "fit for the management of public and private business."36 Above all, he wished to create what he called the vir bonus dicendi peritus, the "good man skilled in speaking"37—someone who was both articulate and virtuous, and who used his oratorical powers for the good of his society.

Qualities that the world considers virtues will lead a leader to ruin, while those regarded as vices will often bring safety and prosperity. Good leadership requires a prince to "know how to do evil.

He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Political cures only worsen the situation. For a changed society, changed men are necessary.

Head up, chin up, shoulders back, remember the worrior queen

Head up, chin up, shoulders back, remember the warrior queen

The Kennedy organization doesn't run, it purrs.

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.

The fate of your company is in the hands of your people. Train them well.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.