Quotes About Leadership

Of authority there are two sorts, the authority of right, and the authority of force.

There is Jackson, standing like a stone wall!

disconnect between people's distaste for government and their attraction to its manifestations.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of the state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

The cultural value that the purpose of government is to serve and bring benefit to the people as a whole will likely serve as the single greatest deterrent against corruption in government.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

Today is not the 1930s. By acknowledging differences and considering instances where a populist reaction was contained as well as those where populist leaders and movements usurped power, I hope to avoid the worst pitfalls.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

Ox, what occupation is most closely linked to insanity?' 'Emperor,' I said promptly.

We have forgotten that a society progresses only to the extent that it produces leaders that are capable of guiding and inspiring progress. And we cannot develop such leaders unless our standards of education are geared to excellence instead of mediocrity.

CEO Bill Hewlett personally authorized a $1 million crash program to develop a miniature, hand-held successor to the successful 9100 series desktop scientific calculator launched four years earlier. By that time, the HP catalog listed some 1,600 products, none of which sold more than ten units per day. Within six months of its launch in January 1972, the new HP-35 was selling 1,000 per day, and a year later accounted for a staggering 41 percent of the company's total profits.

bullshit might help you get to the top, but it won't keep you there.

There is no more effective way to destroy the leadership potential of young officers and noncommissioned officers than to deny them opportunities to make decisions appropriate for their assignments.

Charles de Gaulle once said, "The French will only be united under the threat of danger. Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.

People are just more willing to follow someone they like and trust.

Another possibility is to use the Captain

It would seem that Caesar's recurrent and deep-rooted fault was his concentration in pursuing the objective immediately in front of his eyes to the neglect of his wider object. Strategically he was an alternating Jekyll and Hyde.

For Caesar met failure each time he relied on the direct, and retrieved it each time he resorted to the indirect.