Quotes About Leadership

When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

Tonin decided that it might be a good thing to be the King of the Droids. He was now a mighty leader, in command of hundreds of utility droids aboard Iron Fist.

his strongest desire was to return to farming, but Weizman had insisted that Hod replace him as air force chief early in 1966. Since then, he had concentrated on refining Focus, reducing the turnaround time for refueling and rearming jets to less than eight minutes. The Egyptian turnaround rate, by comparison, was eight hours. "He may not be able to quote [the Hebrew poet] Bialik or Shakespeare," Weizman said of Hod, "but he will screw the Arabs in plain Hebrew.

The Browns were holding a council of war in the dining room, and Mr. Brown was fighting a losing battle.

Those five words…"the good of the department." They never added up to anything but high jingo.

She keyed the mic. "I'm not in detectives. Hold my 'boyfriend' there. I'll come get him." "Roger that." "Hey, L-T. We have a PO on Hollywood roster

Power is neither male or female.

His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success--or the most to lose from failure.

In any case, this was a deep human prejudice. Human beings to find a central command in any organization. States had governments. Corporations had CEOs. Schools had principals. Armies had generals. Human beings tended to believe that without central command, chaos would overwhelm the organization and nothing significant could be accomplished.

The gene," Dr. Narcejac-Boileau said, "is associated with social dominance and strong control over other people. We have isolated it in sports leaders, CEOs, and heads of state. We believe the gene is found in all dictators throughout history.

The Japanese have a saying: fix the problem, not the blame. In American organizations it's all about who fucked up. Whose head will roll. In Japanese organizations it's about what's fucked up, and how to fix it. Nobody gets blamed. Their way is better.

Presidents and generals and all the important people in position to make the most important decisions are, by and large, the least equipped for making them.

What's really wrong with making them the problem is that you abdicate your own responsibility. Once you say some mysterious they is in charge, then you're able to sit back comfortably and complain about how they are doing it.

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If Donald Trump is squealing like a stuck pig," replied Koch, "I must have done something right." Trump called the mayor a "moron," and Koch taunted him with "Piggy, piggy, piggy." The

Politics requires sacrifice. The sacrifice of others, of course.

It's not respect but fear that motivates a man; that's how empires are built and revolutions begin. It is the secret of great men.

The higher up the tree a cat climbs, the farther it will fall. It's the same for politicians, except politicians don't bounce.

Democracy is like a great play. It lasts more than one act. You must be patient

La política requiere sacrificio. El sacrificio de los demás, por supuesto. No importa qué pueda conseguir un hombre sacrificándose por su país, siempre se saca mayor provecho dejando que otros lo hagan primero.

No es el respeto, sino el miedo lo que motiva a un hombre; así se construyen imperios y se ponen en marcha revoluciones. Ése es el secreto de los grandes hombres. Cuando un hombre tiene miedo de que lo aplastes, de que lo destruyas por completo, su respeto siempre vendrá detrás. El temor más elemental siempre es embriagador, abrumador, liberador. Siempre es más intenso que el respeto