Quotes About Leadership

C'mon, Alec," Damien said. "Sung just wants us to win." "No," I said. "Sung only wants us to win. There's a difference." Damien and the others looked at me blankly. This was not, I remembered, a word-choice crowd.

which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are.

The business that my role generates is not always something that you can connect with my talks directly. ... if I go and build the brand by getting my name and the company name out there, it may generate business in a year or two. - Ivar Grimstad

In the immortal words of Mr. Burns.......eeeeexcellent.

Something was seriously wrong with Burnside. Either his mental apparatus wasn't functioning or he was grossly incompetent. Probably both.

It is sad and shocking to think that victory and the lives of thousands of men are pawns to the "fear of They," and the writings of a group of unprincipled reporters, and weak-kneed congressmen.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. (describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq, 1991)

Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.

On Chiang Kai-Shek: "He's a son of a bitch but he's our son of a bitch."

The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.

When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?" (…) A sigh of longing. "To be honest, I wanted to be ruler of the entire world. Or the ruler's trophy wife.

I'm king of the World, bitches. Come in here and bask in my glory.(Strider)

Let's play a little game I like to call Cole's in Charge and Ali's Not.

Non sono una dei tuoi uomini; non puoi darmi ordini» si ribellò Gwen. «Se fossi una dei miei uomini, in questo momento mi vergognerei dei miei pensieri.»

Pretty much everyone took over the world at least once back in the day. I even thought about it a couple of times.

I find it curious that men who feel qualified to split God's kingdom do not feel capable of going somewhere else, to another land, to raise up a completely new kingdom. No, they must steal from another leader. I have never seen the exception. They seem always to need at least a few pre-packaged followers.

Korah approached

Rules were invented by elders so they could get to bed early. Men who speak endlessly on authority only prove they have none. And kings who make speeches about submission only betray twin fears in their hearts: they are not certain they are really true leaders, sent of God. And they live in mortal fear of a rebellion... No... authority from God is not afraid of challenges, makes no defense, and cares not one whit if it must be dethroned.

No young believer should ever rise quickly in the ministry.

Americans expect the president to right the wrongs that plague us—and we blame him when he fails. Because we invest impossible expectations in the presidency, the presidency has become an impossible job. And once the honeymoon period inevitably fades, the modern president becomes a lightning rod for discontent, often catching blame for phenomena beyond the control of any one person, however powerful

Can any American child grow up to be president? Probably not, however fond we might be of the idea. Perhaps a better question is: what well-adjusted tyke would want the job?

There was a revealing moment in the first presidential debate in September 2008, moderator Jim Lehrer asked the candidates, ''Are you willing to acknowledge, both of this financial crisis is going to affect the way you rule the country as president of the States?''Neither McCain nor Obama objected to Lehrer's phrasing. Both, it seemed, perfectly comfortable with the idea that it's the president's job to ''rule the country.

The tendency to support enhanced executive power when one's friends hold the executive branch—a syndrome aptly dubbed ''Situational Constitutionalism''— is a recurring theme of this book.

CIO stands for "Career Is Over.