Quotes About Leadership

There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

T]here are some people out there who don't wait for what comes next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.

I work for the Spandler Corporation. We are a three-hundred-million-dollar business, with offices in twelve states. We have over five hundred employees. We are known throughout the country as a leader in the industry. Our customers rely heavily on us. We produce nothing. We sell nothing. We buy nothing. If we didn't exist, Kafka would have to invent us.

No child will ever accept a maxim that is preached but not followed by the preacher. It is a waste of breath for the father to order his Sons to keep their temper, to behave like gentlemen, or to be good sportsmen, if he does or is himself none of these things.

Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent. Leave that to me.

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

Children are our future. We cannot allow them to run amok. -pg. 167 The Collected Sayings of the Emperor "The Demon's Daughter

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Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès

You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

I know I feel like Gulliver sometimes, weighed down by little men. There are so many people in this house, I'm a queen bee, with every muscle dragging. I'm the heart of a cluster, black, dripping, sucking, hanging.

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

Così Hailè Selassiè non era un santo". Aaron Melchiades sollevò le sopracciglia, sospirò e disse: "Diciamo che se lo era non ce ne eravamo accorti". Poi aggiunse: "Sarà così anche per Mussolini. Rimpiangere i tiranni è molto più semplice che sopportarli".

One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.

A diferencia de Díaz, que los citaba (a los indígenas) en Palacio Nacional, Cárdenas había acudido personalmente a sus poblados, comía y dormía con ellos, tomaba nota, gestionaba soluciones concretas y sobre todo escuchaba, siempre escuchaba

El populismo es el uso demagógico de la democracia para acabar con ella.

Sólo dejaban huella en el mundo los hombres audaces, los rebeldes con alteza de miras, no las hormigas laboriosas que ascendían por escalafón.

Six out of eight members of the first politburo of the Bolshevik Party created in November 1917 – Lev Kamenev, Nikolay Krestinsky, Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Andrei Bubnov, and Grigori Sokolnikov – were killed by Stalin between 1936 and 1941; only Lenin and Stalin himself died natural deaths.

No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.

No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.

Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl

We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.

What I heard from the officers and the generals was, "Kids, this will never end well." Those were the officers I knew, and with some of them I had very close personal contact. None of them were Nazis. They all would say only, "My God, this isn't going to end well.

Jewish organizations had pushed early on to make the persecution and murder of the Jews a key issue, the Allied military leadership regarded it as more important to wear down the German military and to make this the topic of the leaflets in order to undermine German morale.55