Quotes About Leadership

When the safety of a state depends on any man's good faith, and its affairs cannot be administered properly unless its rulers choose to act from good faith, it will be very unstable," Spinoza notes.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

Prefects. I had learned this one. Student council types, but with superpowers. They who must be obeyed.

Don't follow someone into the dark, Stevie. I've seen it happen too many times.

Day or two. Got a bunch of it from The West Wing. That was the only show I was never allowed to watch when I was a kid, so it's my favorite. I wonder who my dad will have as VP if he gets into the White House? I'm rooting for a cloud of bats. What about you, Stevie? You know him better than I do.

No group has any proper intellectual leadership today or any proper representation.

I and they, my chosen friends, my fellow-builders, shall write the firsts chapter in the new history of man

whatever we are, it's we who move the world and it's we who'll pull it through.

Eddie, what do we care about people like him? We're driving an express, and they're riding on the roof, making a lot of noise about being leaders. Why should we care? We have enough power to carry them along – haven't we?

Any man who's afraid of hiring the best ability he can find, is a cheat who's in a business where he doesn't belong. To me - the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the employer who rejects men for being too good. That's what I've always thought...

Now I'll give you a choice. That train is going to be run. You have no choice about that. But you can choose whether it's going to be run by one of your men or not. If you choose not to let them, the train will still run, if I have to drive the engine myself.

La mayoría de las sociedades han sido regidas por los bárbaros y los hechiceros.

An architect requires a great many men to erect his building. But he does not ask them to vote on his design.

The weather seemed afraid to take a stand and clung noncommittally to some sort of road's middle; Board of Directors' weather, she thought.

man who rules the mob only as long as he says what the mob wants him to say.

People who are afraid to sacrifice somebody have no business talking about a common purpose.

Any man who's afraid of hiring the best ability he can find, is a cheat who's in a business where he doesn't belong. To me—the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the employer who rejects men for being too good.

Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the sudden realization that nothing else was necessary to guarantee that it would be done; she needed no proofs, no questions, no explanations; a complex problem could rest safely on three syllables pronounced by a man who knew what he was saying.

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking.

Quieres saber qué está mal en el mundo? Todos los desastres que han asolado al mundo provinieron del intento de los líderes de ignorar el hecho de que A es A.

I went out to become a flame-spotter. I made it my job to watch for those bright flares in the growing night of savagery, which were the men of ability, the men of the mind—to watch their course, their struggle and their agony—and to pull them out, when I knew that they had seen enough.

will, when he gets here. But, boy!—I'd work for him as a cinder sweeper. He'd blast through this valley like a rocket. He'd triple everybody's production." "Who's that?" "Hank Rearden.

One doesn't get to be first in anything without the strength to make some sacrifices.

No importa que sólo unos pocos en cada generación comprendan y logren la realidad completa de la adecuada estatura humana y que el resto la traicione. Son esos pocos los que mueven al mundo y le dan su sentido a la vida, y son esos pocos a quienes siempre aspiré a dirigirme. El resto no me interesa; no es a mí o a El manantial a quien traicionarán: es a sus propias almas.   Ayn Rand Nueva