Quotes About Leadership

Samuel Adams was the kind of man you like to believe exists and rarely meet.

Dryly he noted that some individuals enjoyed every political gift except that of discretion.)

Thomas Hutchinson observed: "Power, once acquired, is seldom voluntarily parted with.

Men who preferred a church without a bishop came naturally to the idea of a state without a king.

Without the character of Samuel Adams," declared John, "the true history of the American Revolution can never be written.

General Apollon Diaz was currently in power and leaned toward the position of the hawks, which was to meet force with force. The proposal had already been made at Parliament (which stood in permanent emergency session) to counterattack: to pull twice the number of teeth from the political prisoners the abductors were demanding and mail them poste restante, as the address of guerrilla headquarters was unknown.

It is believed that Revson is the author of the oft-quoted statement, uttered during one long working weekend to his subordinates, "If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother to come in on Sunday.

While in their conference room perusing some papers, he came upon a middle manager who was being yelled at by a senior vice president of finance. The poor man's shoulders were bent with anguish, his eyes were red and runny with sadness and humiliation, his hands shook, and he could scarcely raise his voice to defend himself.

The beauty part of business warfare, unless your business is importing cocaine from Colombia or covering up a nuclear fuel spill in the Midwest, is that there is rarely any actual blood involved. Maybe that's why we can forgive Sun Tzu now and then for being such a careful sissy-boy. His guys were playing with live ammo, not cell phones and BlackBerrys.

Because business, in many ways, is like politics or beauty pageants. The talented do, at times, rise to the top. But those with guts, gumption, unbounded energy, hot desire, and the ability to push people around do very well, too, even the ugly ones.

These are tough times," said the COO to each of them. "And tough times call for hard solutions. Thank you for your contribution. Now get the fuck out of here." Actually, he didn't say that precisely. But that's precisely what he meant.

En un primer momento, el líder principal de la coalición antihitleriana fue Winston Churchill, quien siempre confesó que, de haber sido un ciudadano español, habría apoyado a Franco.

Statesmen should remember that they have been elected to persuade and to lead, and not just to accept as fixed the momentary moods and pernicious prejudices of the public.

Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

Panic is not an effective, long-term organizing strategy.

Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.

Give me the strength to lead, for I fear otherwise we may hang ourselves.

King said, "Come. Sit. Have some more drinks. Colonel Kalinski, will you sort that out? You

the juniors were acting different because they are now the seniors. They even had T-shirts made. I don't know who plans these things.

I don't want to be just another thing mary elizabeth is in charge of

I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.

It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country.

Why even dictate? Well, like a lot of other dictators, there's one man's opinion I value above all others. Mine.

My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.