Quotes About Leadership

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

Writing 'If Chloe Can' has taken me on an amazing journey: from launching the event at Downing Street, to a performance to 1,000 inner-city school girls at a West End theatre, then to an audience of hundreds more at the Royal Society of Chemistry.

When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.

I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

People need to understand: Businesses are going to make mistakes. They shouldn't be shot and hung every time.

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

Today I like my first ladies with a little bite.

I don't want to panic them,' I said. 'If we don't

Oops, we didn't fire nearly enough people

Noelle forced the crowd to part for

Power is the ability to persuade stupid people to do intelligent things and intelligent people to do stupid things. This is why power is dangerous.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Combat is fear and management of fear far more than it is organized murder. Those who manage fear best will seize the day.

The lower ranks have the privilege of questioning the sanity and competence of their commanders. It's the mortar holding an army together.

If war is too important to trust to generals, then policy is too important to trust to politicians.

Order was what regular people wanted. Order and security were necessary before prosperity could take hold. The political crap, the who is going to be in charge, did not matter to most folks.

Maybe, maybe not. You might be surprised. But, win or lose, they'll've set an example by trying— which is more than anyone's ever done. Gives an old man hopes of seeing the War die before he does. Word of this gets out, maybe nobody'll answer the call to the next Gathering.

It is not good form to bicker with your superiors, however wrong they may be and however one-sided their determination of their superiority

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Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors, and thieves. —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC)

The state is more interested in self-aggrandizement and power than it is in promoting the good.

The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust. —James Madison (1751–1836)

When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.