Quotes About Leadership

Make yourself sheep, and the wolves will eat you.

Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men," I

Those who are feared are hated.

The eye of a master will do more work than his hand.

If you would have your business done, go; if not, send. Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge. Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

The eye of a master will do more work than both his hands';

Marry above thy match and you will get a master.

Wherever Gandhi went, he transformed situations and lives. As one friend and biographer wrote, "He...changed human beings by regarding them not as what they thought they were but as though they were what they wished to be, and as though the good in them was all of them

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.

Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews, and Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said, 'If you expel them, they'll all come here.' -- 'So what should I do with them?' Hitler asked the mufti, who responded: 'Burn them.'.

the art of politics and the idea of cohering interests.

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable the principles of it are troublesome.

The conductor of an orchestra doesn't make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful.

It's one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he's leading to realize whatever he's dreaming.

Right. So if the eyes are shining, you know you're doing it. If the eyes are not shining, you get to ask a question. And this is the question: who am I being that my players' eyes are not shining? We can do that with our children, too. Who am I being, that my children's eyes are not shining? That's a totally different world.

It's one of the characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he's leading to realize whatever he's dreaming. Imagine if Martin Luther King had said, 'I have a dream. Of course, I'm not sure they'll be up to it.

Truman knew, Republicans would duck responsibility and attack the White House for partisan gain.

I think that having 24 people around the Cabinet table whose future depends upon maintaining the good will of one man is fundamentally undemocratic and it would be far better if Cabinet ministers were accountable to the Parliamentary Labour Party.