Quotes About Leadership

If Kushner could not find a Middle East peace plan, "nobody can," Trump said. Kushner didn't.

The elder Kim had dealt with weapons test failures by ordering the death of the responsible scientists and officials. They were shot. The younger Kim accepted failures in tests, apparently absorbing the practical lesson: Failure is inevitable on the road to success. Under Kim Jong Un, the scientists lived to learn from their mistakes, and the weapons programs improved.

Many foreign policy leaders had said that Trump gave Kim (Kim Jong Un, dictator of North Korea) too much by agreeing to meet without formal, written conditions. So, have you given Kim too much power? I asked. Kim had said he wouldn't shoot more ICBMs (Intercontinental ballistic missiles).Because if he's defiant, if he shoots one of those ICBMs, what are you going to do sir? If he shoots, he shoots, Trump said.

Graham made a dramatic proposal to Kelly and McMaster. "China needs to kill him and replace him with a North Korean general they control," Graham said. China had at least enough control so the North would not attack. "I think the Chinese are clearly the key here and they need to take him out. Not us, them.

The chairman is not in the chain of command.

realized," Bannon said later, "I'm the director, he's the actor.

But overlooked was that Trump had a way of appearing to strengthen his own hand by creating a situation, often risky, that did not previously exist. Threatening the volatile North Korean regime with nuclear weapons was unthinkable, but he had done it. It turned out to be only the beginning. The go-along, get-along presidency of the past was over.

The Black Panther Party was a revolutionary political organization. Although its members were leaders of the Black Power movement, they were not black nationalists. Their "black pride" was not based on denigrating whites, but on showing the black community how to take control of its own destiny. The Black Panther Party worked for economic justice and power for all people. Bobby

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

Booker T. Washington

Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.

We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.

I am Walt Disney. I know that the person who makes dreams come true is YOU.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Alan Whitcomb

Leadership was not only about taking charge, it was also about giving your team everything they needed to succeed, and then getting out of their way. It meant knowing when you should be the first person charging through a door and when you should stand down and let someone else do it. Harvath

there were just three categories of human beings—sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves. To those three categories, Harvath had added another—wolf hunters. That was what the world needed more of. The sheep had only two speeds—graze and stampede. They needed sheepdogs to keep them safe in case of an attack by the wolves. Wolf hunters, though, were needed to find and kill the wolves, whenever possible, before they attacked.

The base makes the case. What they want goes. As French politician Ledru-Rollin once said, "There go the people.

In Grossman's mind, there were just three categories of human beings—sheep, sheepdogs, and wolves.

in history had been won not by those with the greatest number of troops, but rather those with the largest commitment to winning the fight.

In government, you can always improve your lie.

Without someone to hunt the wolves, the sheep would never be safe. The wolves were multiplying too quickly. The sheepdogs were being overrun.

I believe power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.