Quotes About Leadership

He's the reason I have so few rules on my team. He told me not to make any rules because that way if a bad kid screws up you get rid of him. If a good kid screws up you do what you have to do and let it go at that. Rules just get you in trouble.

Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.

Yeah, Stevie thought, you should probably pick up when the vice president of the United States calls.

Three he recognized as assistant coaches Johnny Dawkins, Chris Collins, and Steve Wojciechowski.

Gates should have exceeded Washington as a military leader. He had long experience in a professional army and was more loved by his men. But Washington's character was superior to that of his rival, and it made him a great man, whereas Gates was merely a good soldier.

The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.

For leaders, wars are filled with guesses.

Washington had learned the secrets of inducing others to follow his lead. Washington probably knew more about leadership before he celebrated his twenty-fifth birthday than John Adams discovered in his lifetime.

The last officer named was Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island; a man of limited education and military experience limited to two years of peacetime militia duty, he nevertheless was destined to be the best of the lot.27

In the next two years he would sit on ninety committees, chairing twenty-five. No other congressman came even remotely close to carrying such a heavy work load. Soon he was acknowledged "to be the first man in the House," as Benjamin Rush reported.28

Jefferson determined the lodestar that lay hidden in the motivations of others

But if Adams was certain of the necessity of the war, he found it difficult to reconcile himself to the role he should play in the conflict. Could he morally order other men to risk death on America's battlefields if he did not likewise face harm? Should he bear arms? Was he less than a man if he did not soldier? Adams struggled with these matters. For a sensitive man such as John Adams, it produced a terrible quandary.

The author distinguishes George Washington's leadership from that of another aristocratic general whose temperament was somewhat cold. Unlike him, Washington made the effort to at least appear to suffer with his troops.

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The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on

There's an old saying that victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

Like dealing with Dad-all give and no take. (On negotiating with Soviet Premier Nikita S Khrushchev)

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.