Quotes About Leadership

This, by the way, is the reason why we do not allow a man to govern, but Principle, because a man governs for himself and comes to be a despot: but the office of a ruler is to be guardian of the Just and therefore of the Equal.

Je ne suis pas plus ennemi qu'un autre des douceurs de la vie. Je ne suis pas un Don Quichotte qui a besoin de quêter les aventures. Je suis un être de raison qui ne fait que ce qu'il croit utile. La seule différence entre moi et les autres souverains, c'est que les difficultés les arrêtent et que j'aime à les surmonter quand il m'est démontré que le but est grand, noble, digne de moi et de la nation que je gouverne.

Je vois les choses de plus haut. Je sens trop ma force pour m'abaisser à de telles intrigues, si au-dessous de mon caractère ; je marche d'une allure plus franche. On me reprocherait avec plus de raison, peut-être, de faire ma politique comme les torrents font leur lit.

Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.

When you have a well developed body and you're confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.

Discovery was no longer a happy ship.

Myron, like countless NCO's before him, had discovered the ideal compromise between power and responsibility.

Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee—at least not all the time.

A major part of his job was deciding when warnings could be ignored, when they could be dealt with at leisure—and when they had to be treated as real emergencies. If he paid equal attention to all the ship's cries for help, he would never get anything done. He

In a rare flash of humor, she had replied: "Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.

Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.

First rule of government of the people, by the people, for the people: Never tell the people!

Politics is the art of the possible'?" "Quite true—which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to challenge the impossible.

That's still looking a long way ahead. For the present, you're the only person who should attempt communication. Agreed, Captain?

Just remember, the mass of the people in China have little or no idea what their leaders are up to, and even less control.

Gücü doÄŸru ÅŸekilde uygularsan bütün siyasal sonuçlar? çözebilirsin.

It still seemed incredible that one man could have done so much with such primitive equipment. But Cook had been not only a supreme navigator, but also a scientist and—in an age of brutal discipline—a humanitarian. He treated his own men with kindness, which was unusual; what was quite unheard of was that he behaved in exactly the same way to the often hostile savages in the new lands he discovered.

All political problems can be solved by the correct application of power.

All right," Otto Heilmann said a few minutes later, "we must now choose our leaders.

Rupert had shepherded his friends round a small but massive table

For the address, Nakamura had ordered his tailors to make him a new shogun's outfit, complete with ornamented sword and dagger. He was appearing in Japanese martial dress, he told his aides, to stress his role as the "lead warrior and protector" of the colonists.

C?ci, deÈ™i era st?pânul lumii, nu era foarte sigur ce trebuia s? fac? în continuare, Dar avea el s? se gândeasc? la ceva".