Quotes About Leadership

The main boy—the one who was calling the shots—pushed

The days of chefs who threw tantrums, who bullied and underpaid their workers, were numbered.

I can see the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled. Jane Welsh Carlyle, (1845)

How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).

The old King is dead. The new King approaches! And at his approach the world sheds its sorrow. The sings of the old King dissolve like morning mist! The world assumes the character of the new. His virtues fill up the wood and world!

Weber warns that "he who seeks the salvation of the soul, his own soul and others, should not seek it along the avenue of politics.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

You are engineers of human souls.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

In the Soviet Union, it's takes more courage to retreat than advance.

The Pope! How many divisions has he got?

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.

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Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

I admire Trotsky, but for propaganda purposes, we must have someone to hate. Since 1937, we have had no one.

peacetime leaders, who are strong in theory, but weak in matters of organization and practical work. Such leaders are popular only among an upper layer of the proletariat, and then only up to a certain time. When the epoch of revolution sets in, when practical revolutionary slogans are demanded of the leaders, the theoreticians quit the stage and give way to new men.

A good government implies two things first, fidelity to the objects of the government secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.

Hitler had led the Reich to victory after victory; now he would bring it to ruin.

You listen to me, Treadwell. You're an office pogue. You never been anything but an office pogue. You don't have the slightest idea what goes on in a working police division. But you keep your mouth shut and do what you're told and I'll see to it that you're a captain someday and you can have your own station to play with. You don't and I'll have you in uniform on the nightwatch in Watts. Understand me, Treadwell?

But Team Policing and the Basic Car Plan had created lots and lots of new jobs for officers of staff rank. Therefore lieutenants made captain, captains made commander and commanders made deputy chief, and everyone had all the time they needed to think up new things for the working cops to do aside from catching crooks, which most of the new captains, commanders and deputy chiefs knew nothing about.

The good leaders seem to get killed; the poor leaders get the men killed.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.