Quotes About Leadership

Get the very best tools to serve your people, not just lots of tools.

A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others.

You get greatness out of people by expecting it.

Serving Leaders teach others the knowledge, skills, and strategies they need to succeed.

Serving Leaders work hard to get obstacles out of the way so others can make progress.

Serving Leaders have to reduce their wisdom on 'how to succeed' into bite-sized packages.

The more you teach your people to not need you, the greater your value.

My men, yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and ten pence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight, the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.

It's not about electing the right people. It's about a narrowing their responsibilities.

Good government has to mean less government.

The dilemma facing Hitler in 1923 was how to carry out a coup d'etat which could only hope to succeed with the army's tacit, if not explicit support, yet which must not be so dependent on the army that its fruits might be denied him.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

But the true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they freely concede to every one else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional necessity, and in all cases a temporary one; and preferring, whenever possible, the society of those with whom leading and following can be alternate and reciprocal.

Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually (as the phrase is) king of his company: and in his most habitual company the husband who has a wife inferior to him is always so.

The yoke is naturally and necessarily humiliating to all persons, except the one who is on the throne, together with, at most, the one who expects to succeed to it.

It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.

It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. But it is a great mistake to suppose that he will do this better for being ignorant of the traditions.

But was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

this benefit from the Montesquieu of our own times, M. de Tocqueville.

Wars are lost or won by possession of three keys: morale, logistics, leadership.

And I say to myself, please, John, don't throw up over Vladimir Putin.

Shrewdly and deliberately, Julius orchestrated every aspect of his building campaigns, tomb project, paintings, and ceremonial pageantry to convey the message that he was born to be-and had rightly assumed his God-given role as-his Christian Caesar.