Quotes About Leadership

Some men will take you to the movies. Some will take you to the mountaintop.

Never limit oneself based on the limitations of others. If you can not inspire them - leave them to be inspired by your lead

The great tragedy of the drive to centralization, as of the drive to extend the scope of government in general, is that it is mostly led by men of goodwill who will be the first to rue its consequences

Instead of Lincoln's government of the people, by the people, and for the people, we now have a government of the people, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats, including the elected representatives who have become bureaucrats.

This transparent system of accounting means that we know which geiko did the most business on any given day. It is always clear who is Number One.

I opened my own place in June of 1977. I named it Club Hollyhock.

Many ministers are more the church's institutional managers than its theological guides; correspondingly, many read more management ("leadership") books than they do works of academic theology.

Je?li chcesz pozna? czyj? prawdziwy charakter, daj mu w?adz? i pieni?dze. Wtedy poka?e ci swoj? w?a?ciw? twarz.

most powerful military in the world is sent to do a task best accomplished by schoolteachers, police forces, persuasion, and time.

Saeed admired his foreman, the foreman having that sort of quiet charisma that young men often gravitate towards, part of which lay in the native man's not seeming the least interested in being admired.

All of which indicates that he's quite a fast learner. When you approve of a politician, this is known as flexibility; when you don't, it's called lack of principal - but in fact, politics requires accommodation.

Carl Parker observes, if you took all the fools out of the Lege, it wouldn't be a representative body anymore.

Don't worry," said Ma, "I will deal with this." She wobbled her head in a way that suggested she already had things under control. "I will deal with your father, okay?

TaÅŸk?n ve azg?n bir tutku giriÅŸtiÄŸimiz iÅŸe yarardan çok zarar getirir,olaylar?n ters gitmesi, gecikmesi kar??s?nda sab?rs?zl??a sürükler bizi, iÅŸlerine bakt???m?z insanlardan soÄŸutur, kuÅŸkuland?r?r. Bizi avucuna alan ve sürükleyen bir iÅŸi kendimiz iyi yönetemeyiz hiçbir zaman. Oysa iÅŸe yaln?z kafas?n? ve ustal???n? koyan daha rahat yürütür iÅŸi.

Do you not want to rule the world, Nicator Seleucus? Do you not want your name whispered from Athens to the banks of the Indus? Hear the bards singing your fame for posterity and the cities minting your coins? The armies carrying your banners and the warriors piercing the clouds with your name? Do you not want all of that, Seleucus?

Politics is almost never violent toward the people who are actually making the political decisions.

In education, emotions are involved but they're a part of a whole package including intellect. In charismatic leadership, sometimes only the emotions are involved, and I think there is a danger of people, either good or bad people, getting converts on the basis of not really understanding what it is they're going into.

A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.

I could do it, Listen boasted. Show me how and I could run the whole damn planet. You can't even reach the on button, said Cienfuegos.

A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study, but war and its order and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. —Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

he carried a hundred soldiers in his hand. "The

Those who abuse political power create a debt of hatred that almost certainly brings them to a bad end.

Good times make bad policy. —Mohammad Sadli, economic adviser to Indonesia's General Suharto2