Quotes About Leadership

When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

I am firmly committed to the proposition that whoever is in power is exceedingly silly.... And that goes for the opposition as well.

For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.

about Jimmy Carter

Rosenfeld runs the metropolitan staff, the Post's largest, like a football coach. He prods his players, letting them know that he has promised the front office results, pleading, yelling, cajoling, pacing, working his facial expressions for instant effects - anger, satisfaction, concern. -- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

I heard Coach Downs never started freshman, he told us. Well that's not how it is with me. I play the best players, period. If you're a junior with three letters on your jacket, and you shave twice a day, and some smooth-faced freshman whips your ass in practice, then your collecting splinters while he's playing. Understood? Coach Carlson

Cab Mulcahy was a patient man, especially for a managing editor. He had been in newspapers his entire adult life and almost nothing could provoke him. Whenever the worst kind of madness gripped the newsroom, Mulcahy would emerge to take charge, instantly imposing a rational and temperate mood.

Donald Trump. I

Since becoming chief, he'd also been well served by an uncommon immunity to condescension.

Malley said, 'What's your problem, T.C.? If these two are dumb enough to swim through a lightning storm, let 'em go.' 'No, no, I gotta think.' The governor said thinking was highly overrated, which made me and my cousin laugh in spite of the situation.

The world belongs to us, the wise ones, we declare...will we be pirates or captains, slumlords or godparents of time? Will we burn the furniture for heat or be good tenants?

Soon after George W. Bush took over the White House after losing the "popular vote"—which in other countries is called the "election"—

But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

The main characteristic of an alpha male wolf," Rick says, "is a quiet confidence, quiet self-assurance. You know what you want to do; you know what's best for the pack. You're very comfortable with that. You have a calming effect. Point is, alpha males are surprisingly nonaggressive, because they don't need to be.

Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.

I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgements.

Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term.

Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and is resisted.

I remind myself that madmen really exist. Sometimes they achieve the highest levels of political power in modern industrial nations.

All of us long for a competent, uncorrupt, charismtatic leader. We will leap at the opportunity to support, to believe, to feel good.

The most brilliant youngsters are a national and a global resource.

Apart from the social insects, no other species has been clever enough to invent war It is an institution optimally configured to benefit the alphas

It is not hard to imagine serious public dangers emerging out of instances in which political, military, scientific or religious leaders are unable to distinguish fact from vivid fiction.

Minha alegria de ensinar foi repetidamente frustrada por diretores com características militares.