Quotes About Leadership

Great men can't be ruled... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.

It takes two to make every great career: the man who is great, and the man-almost rarer-who is great enough to see greatness and say so.

All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that groups of men are vacuums. Great big empty nothings. They say we can't visualize a total nothing. Hell, sit at any committee meeting. The point is only who chooses to fill that nothing. It's a tough battle. The toughest. It's simple enough to fight any enemy, so long as he's there to be fought. But when he isn't. . .

The effort he demanded of his employees was hard to perform; the effort of himself was hard to believe.

Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders' attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A.

Get the hell out of my way! Said by John Galt as the leaders of the country tried to make him become their dictator.

Any man, who's afraid of hiring the best ability he can find, is a cheat who's in a business where he doesn't belong. To me-the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the employer who rejects men for being too good. That's what I've always thought and- say, what are you laughing at?

Those who wish to deal with me, must do so on my terms or not at all. I do not make terms with incompetence.

He was taking control, rather than simply letting things happen to him. Then

He was taking control, rather than simply letting things happen to him.

I realized my job was to paint a picture of 'New Cheese' that we would all want to pursue, so we could enjoy changing and succeeding, whether it was at work or in life.

Yet what difference does it make whether the women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same." —ARISTOTLE

The best that can be said of the Alexandrian War is that Caesar acquitted himself brilliantly in a situation in which he stupidly found himself.

But the standouts in the generations immediately preceding Cleopatra's were—for vision, ambition, intellect—universally female.

the border between the human and divine was fluid for Cleopatra.

The people owed it to themselves to monitor those who governed.

Indeed Cleopatra murdered her siblings, but Herod murdered his children.

diadem, Cleopatra took part throughout the trip in religious

In John Adams's worst nightmare, the story of the American Revolution assumed a different formulation: "The essence of the whole will be that Dr. Franklin's electrical rod smote the earth and out sprung General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his rod—and thence forward these two conducted all the policy, negotiation, legislatures, and war.

The First Mistake in Public Business Is the Going into It

To have a villainous ruler imposed on you was a misfortune. To elect him yourself was a disgrace.

Two thousand years of bad press and overheated prose, of film and opera, cannot conceal the fact that Cleopatra was a remarkably capable queen, canny and opportunistic in the extreme, a strategist of the first rank.

Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history: that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous.

Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered.