Quotes About Leadership

W]hen any of the four pillars of government are mainly shaken or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel and treasure), men had need to pray for fair weather.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

The honorablest part of talk, is to give the occasion; and again to moderate, and pass to somewhat else; for then a man leads the dance.

The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness, and facility.

So when any of the four pillars of government, are mainly shaken, or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure), men had need to pray for fair weather.

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.

But we forget that government was also created to act and make decisions.

But as important as material self-interest is, human beings are motivated by other things as well, motives that better explain the disparate events of the present. This might be called the politics of resentment. In a wide variety of cases, a political leader has mobilized followers around the perception that the group's dignity had been affronted, disparaged, or otherwise disregarded. This resentment engenders demands for public recognition of the dignity of the group in question.

The English race, consequently, has long and successfully studied the art of curbing executive power to the constant neglect of the art of perfecting executive methods. It has exercised itself much more in controlling than in energizing government. It has been more concerned to render government just and moderate than to make it facile, well-ordered and effective.

Joseph Stalin was said to have contemptuously asked, "How many divisions has the pope?

The principle of effective government is meritocracy; the principle of democracy is popular participation. These two principles can be made to work together, but there is always an underlying tension between them.

To propel themselves forward, such figures latched onto the resentments of ordinary people who felt that their nation or religion or way of life was being disrespected. Megalothymia and isothymia thus joined hands.

In the hands of good leaders, such a system can actually perform better than a democratic system that is subject to rule of law and formal democratic procedures like multiparty elections. It can make large, difficult decisions without being hampered by interest groups, lobbying, litigation, or the need to form cumbersome political coalitions or educate the public as to their own self-interest.

This is, in effect, the essence of politics: the ability of leaders to get their way through a combination of authority, legitimacy, intimidation, negotiation, charisma, ideas, and organization.

It was only Frederick's enormous skill as a military commander and outright luck (the accession of Peter III to the Russian throne) that saved the state and allowed it to remain a major European player.

A political system that is all checks and balances is potentially no more successful than one with no checks, because governments periodically need strong and decisive action.

At the end of Trump's term, what I've learned is that I really don't understand America well at all.

In societies where most politicians are corrupt, singling one out for punishment is often not a sign of reform but of a power grab.

Do 'keystones' have a 'Master'?

Some statesmen have been tagged as having great 'foresight' in their deliberations and activities. Are there any historical records of outstanding statesmen as possessing 'sight' in the ninth, tenth or double digit degree in their particular category of achievement?

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.

The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be a monarch of a little world, command thyself.

El centro de la telaraña, según nos van a revelar los estudios de caso más adelante, eran las relaciones personales, privadas, del jefe del grupo o responsable del país con los más altos niveles del Estado y los partidos, y también, en el caso del jefe de proyectos, con los niveles medios y bajos de la red.