Quotes About Leadership

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Ronald Reagan had a plaque on his desk that said "There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he does not mind who gets the credit.

King George III himself, it must be pointed out, stood out as a rare and notable exception to the advanced moral decay of those around him. He was deeply sensitive to his symbolic position as the head of the country and sincerely wished to set an example for the subjects he ruled.

I fancy it must be this which, when I am with you, prevents me considering you an object of compassion, tho' Prime Minister of England; for now, when I am out of hearing of your foyning…I cannot help representing you to myself as oppressed with cares and troubles.

A sight to make surrounding nations stare, A Kingdom trusted to a school boy's care.

Wilberforce, only twenty-four himself, was Pitt's greatest ally there, and he stood staunchly by his friend's side during this time, both of them using their powerful oratorical skills to the fullest.

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he does not mind who gets the credit.

What made Wilberforce one of the best speakers of his day is complex

When it was all over, Pitt had overwhelmingly won the House of Commons, and as politically weak as he was before the election, he was now strong. It was an historic and glorious reversal, and little Wilberforce was at the very center of it all.

No one in the history of the world had ever conceived of the idea that there could be a rebellion against a leader that would end not in a new leader but in a new kind of leadership altogether—a leadership that was accountable to those whom it led.

Bonhoeffer contended in his address that if a leader's main objective was to idolize himself, that leader was not exhibiting true, godly leadership, but was in fact a "mis-leader" of the people he pretended to lead.

As nations become corrupt and vicious," he says, "they have more need of masters." The root of the word "vicious" is "vice"—the word simply means "full of vice." So Franklin, without feeling the need to explain himself much, is bluntly saying that "freedom requires virtue." And that less virtue inevitably begets less freedom. In

The good leader serves others and leads others to maturity.

But after all, it is a very pretty pass indeed. And how very glad we are that one man led us to that pretty pass, to that golden doorway, and then guided us through the mountains to a world we hadn't known could exist.

Celebramos] con júbilo el cincuenta aniversario de nuestro Führer. En él, Dios le ha concedido al pueblo alemán un hacedor de milagros ... Que nuestra manera de darle las gracias sea la voluntad resuelta e inflexible de no decepcionar... a nuestro Führer en la gran hora histórica».

It was a case of the blind leading the blind, only worse, for Arnault seems to have been practically headless.

Of the many societal problems Wilberforce might have thought needed his attention, slavery would have been the least visible of all, and by a wide margin.

A leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths

Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn't mean it cannot be managed.

When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

All innovation begins with vision. It's what happens next that is critical.

HYPERGROWTH FOR A COMPANY ALSO REQUIRES HYPERGROWTH OF THE PEOPLE INSIDE IT.

The CEO and VP of product, instead of building their business, are engaged in the drudgery of solving just one customer's problem. Instead of marketing themselves to millions, they sold themselves to one.