Quotes About Leadership

Our hopes are high. Our faith in the people is great. Our courage is strong. And our dreams for this beautiful country will never die. - Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Former Prime Minister of Canada

Don't be afraid to employ people who will force you out of your comfort zone.

Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.

Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

As an entrepreneur, don't follow the crowd; let them follow you.

In your business or in your close relationships, if you want people to perform Herculean feats on your behalf, they must know that you care about them.

The best entrepreneurs have found a way to serve others and as a result discover their greatest fulfillment.

He [Oliver Cromwell] said: "I see there is a people risen and come up that I cannot win either with gifts, honors, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can."

The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them – in the long run– without undermining the needs of the moment. Bad presidents simply do what is expedient, heedless of principles. But the worst presidents are those who adhere to the principles regardless of what the fortunes of the moment demand.

Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass along the accumulated experience that creates good admirals.

Presidents and other politicians manage the appearance of things, largely by manipulating the air and hope.

While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and he must manage them and lead them, but he must not succumb to personal feelings. His job is to maintain a ruthless sense of proportion while keeping the coldness of his calculation to himself.

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

Success will require the studied lack of sophistication of a Ronald Reagan and the casual dishonesty of an FDR. The president must appear to be not very bright yet be able to lie convincingly.

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone through what it requires to become president.

The founders made the president commander in chief for a reason: they had read Machiavelli carefully and they knew that, as he wrote, "there is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Freedom of action based on commander's intent means that the expectation is success, not a particular way of achieving success.

the American people must mature. We are an adolescent lot, expecting solutions to insoluble problems and perfection in our leaders.

Their job as leader was not to solve the problem – the president really has little control over the economy – but to convince the public not only that he has a plan but that he is altogether confident in the plan's success and that only a cynic or someone in different to the public's well-being would dare to question him on the details.

A president must know what it is he does not know, and he should remain calm in pursuit of it, but there is no obligation to be honest about it.

Japan will need to foster deep

We have to remember that presidents are simply the street signs. The cycle is working itself out in the murky depths.

Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.

Horthy was no more of an anti-Semite than good manners required, and this was not something he may have wanted himself, but his duty was to preserve an independent Hungary, and if putting Jews into labor battalions was what was needed, he was going to do what was needed. For