Quotes About Leadership

leadership by consumer staples is usually associated with a market top. That would also have suggested rotating out of stocks and into bonds or gold.

No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops.

Or maybe it's time for people to be their own Jedi. They weren't gods — just people like us, who saw a need. If they could find a way, I'm sure we can.

A starship is a weapon, but it's the crew that makes it deadly.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

God has given us the Papacy," the thirty-seven-year-old pope is said to have written to his brother Giuliano soon after his accession, "now let us enjoy it." The

In the first instance it would carry the American Seventh Army under the celebrated gun-toting General George S. Patton and the British Eighth Army under General (later Field Marshal) Sir Bernard Montgomery.

I don't care what party you belong to or what office you're seeking—you owe it to your constituents, to the people you're looking to serve, to get it right. If you say something is so, then it ought to be so.

If there's nothing heroic about how you approach your time in office, you can't expect to be held up as any kind of hero to your nation's young people.

I couldn't give as good as I'd gotten. Why? Plain and simple: I hadn't gotten into politics to serve the Republican Party. From the very beginning, I've told people the Republican Party was my vehicle, not my master

I hadn't gotten into politics to serve the Republican Party. From the very beginning, I've told people the Republican Party was my vehicle, not my master

True leadership means pursuing it, even if it is hard. The sacrifice is part of the job, however, because leaders can't lead unless they are servants first.

Todo el mundo necesita un guía que lo lleve hacia el infierno

Después de todo, a mi modo, estoy aquí para guiarte. El problema es que la palabra «guía» tiene connotaciones positivas que pueden ser incorrectas. Puede que tenga que dirigirte hacia dónde no quieras ir.

There is a role for carrots and sticks, but to rely on carrots and sticks alone is effective only when we employ donkeys and we are sure exactly what we want the donkeys to do.

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Success depends on the flair, skills and initiative of people who cannot be effectively supervised.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.