Quotes About Leadership

You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.

Any time you put Matheny in, that's good managing.

I think Donald Trump is gonna do great. Because I've worked with him and known him a long time. He's a guy who is not programmed to fail.

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

By the time executives get to high levels, they are good at making others feel confident in their judgment, even if there's no strong basis for the judgment.

Politicians have a tremendous amount of ego to be able to do it. It's very hard when the product your selling to an entire country is yourself and you're just selling the hell out of it all the time.

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.

How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?

I'm a uniter not a divider. That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up.

"In a time of war, the president must have the power he needs to make the tough decisions, including, if need be, the decision to grant himself even more power."

I served. And now it's time for the new man to serve. I have zero desire to be in the limelight.

"Statesman" gives the impression that every time a major issue comes up, I'll be popping off. And that's not what's going to happen.

You don't deliberately submit people you love to something like that. I don't think I'd run again for vice-president. Next time I'd run for president.

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.

I agree and I disagree in the sense that I think that he [Donald Trump] has a fondness for autocrats, but at the same time, isn't he talking about like perception of defending your country.

The Bush administration made us nostalgic for ... well, any other time in history.

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.

The lyrics were my sarcastic way of realizing you can't be the king of the hill all the time.

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

I have pretty thick skin. I've been in the arena a long time, and that means that I am not going to get down with [Donald Trump] and go insult for insult.

It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, for the few, and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.