Quotes About Leadership

If you want to win, go to business, to the office, to the conference, or to the public meeting, brim full of vitality and people will realize without any act on your part that a king is in their midst.

We who are in this race for riches, should be encouraged to know that this changed world in which we live is demanding new ideas, new ways of doing things, new leaders, new inventions, new methods of teaching, new methods of marketing, new books, new literature, new features for the radio, new ideas for moving pictures.

Tolerance, and an open mind are practical necessities of the dreamer of today. Those who are afraid of new ideas are doomed before they start. Never has there been a time more favorable to pioneers than the present. True, there is no wild and woolly west to be conquered, as in the days of the Covered Wagon; but there is a vast business, financial, and industrial world to be remoulded and redirected along new and better lines.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Here I saw a city rise and say to the peoples round world: Listen, I am strong, I know what I want.

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult

The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.

War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.

Anyone who falls into the habit of thinking and expecting the best of his subordinates at all times is, for that reason alone, unsuited to command an army

I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

Pero usted es el hombre y le toca llevar la iniciativa. Aquello empezaba a adquirir un cariz funesto. —¿ La iniciativa? ¿Yo? —¿ Qué quiere? Algún precio tenía que tener el poder mear de pie.

It's what I always say: if you want things to turn our well, you must put a woman in charge.

Three heads think better than two, especially if the third one is mine.

Acho que o problema não está na ciência, mas naqueles que decidem como empregá-la.

Que un bibliotecario experimentado llagara a dirigir la Biblioteca Nacional de España, aunque solo fuese durante catorce meses, ha sido un accidente no premeditado al que las mentes preclaras que rigen nuestros destinos han puesto remedio, más cuando hay un sinfín de amiguetes y parientes con que cubrir el puesto.

But you're the man, and you must take the lead." It was all beginning to look pretty grim. "The lead? Me?" "What do you expect? One has to pay some price for being able to piss standing up.

Señorías hace muchos años que no he visto a ninguna, pero si se refiere usted a mi humilde persona, bastará con decirle que soy el director de esta casa y que uno de mis pasatiempos predilectos es ponder a pardillos e intrusos de patitas en la calle.

Rara vez en la historia de este país se ha encontrado al frente de una institución cultural a alguien cualificado, o al menos no incompetente sin remedio. Se aplican estrictos controles y hay numeroso personal especializado para impedir que eso suceda. La meritocracia y el clima mediterráneo son incompatibles por necesidad

si uno quiere que las cosas salgan bien hay que poner a una mujer al mando. —No me

We need a few trusted naysayers in our lives, critics who are willing to puncture our protective bubble of self-justifications and yank us back to reality if we veer too far off. This is especially important for people in positions of power.

What, then, was the new strategy he proposed? More troops and more money. For him, any other option was unthinkable. It would mean he had made a colossal mistake.