Quotes About Leadership

employees need great managers. The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.

Don't helicopter in at seventeen thousand feet, because sooner or later you and your people will die on the mountain.

The greatest managers in the world do not have much in common. But despite their differences, these great managers do share one thing: Before they do anything else, they first break all the rules of conventional wisdom.

Talented employees need great managers. The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.

But "having dominion over" meant something very different from what it has often been understood to mean. It refers to the relationship between shepherd and sheep.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

When I notice how carefully arranged his hair is and when I watch him adjusting the parting with one finger, I cannot imagine that this man could conceive of such a wicked thing as to destroy the Roman constitution.

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catalina, patientia nostra?

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

The aim of a ship's captain is a successful voyage; a doctor's, health; a general's, victory. So the aim of our ideal statesman is the citizens' happy life--that is, a life secure in wealth, rich in resources, abundant in renown, and honorable in its moral character. That is the task which I wish him to accomplish--the greatest and best that any man can have.

These people who govern us should not be so carried away by their own political power that they turn away from peace, but neither should they embrace a peace that is dishonorable.

Tum enim dixit duo corpora esse rei publicae, unum debile infirmo capite, alterum firmum sine capite.

It is a great thing to so carry yourself that when people see you coning, they will say to themselves, 'Here comes a winner! Here is a man who dominates everything he touches.

The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the leaders were older than me I could believe in their wisdom, I could believe they had transcended rage and malice and the need to be loved. Now I know better. I look at the faces in newspapers, in magazines, and wonder: what greeds, what furies drive them on?

underlings given sudden power frequently become the worst abusers of it.

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

like a pathway through a forest, like a carpet for royalty, it shows me the way

First the leaders and the led, then the tyrants and the slaves, then the massacres. That's how it's always gone.

I sit in the chair and think about the word chair. It can also mean the leader of a meeting. It can also mean a mode of execution. It is the first syllable in charity. It is the French word for flesh. None of these facts has any connection with the others. These are the kinds of litanies I use, to compose myself.

The leader had a beard and was wearing a caftan that looked as if it had been sewn by elves on hash.

You pride yourself on being a realist, I told myself, so face the facts. There's been a coup, here in the United States, just as in times past in so many other countries. Any forced change of leadership is always followed by a move to crush the opposition. The opposition is led by the educated, so the educated are the first to be eliminated. You're a judge, so you are the educated, like it or not. They won't want you around.

You can't lead if no one will follow.

Any forced change of leadership is always followed by a move to crush the opposition. The opposition is led by the educated, so the educated are the first to be eliminated.