Quotes About Leadership

Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.

A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.

When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.

I say this as the president of the country which has suffered more deaths, more blood and more sacrifices in this war.

In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war.

Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.

Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.

Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.

War is a matter of vital importance to the state.

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.

Headquarters in the Saddle.

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you would one man.

A political war can be fought from anywhere.

There can be no whitewash at the White House.

I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.

Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.