Quotes About Leadership

Judged by accepted canons of statecraft, the white man towered the indisputable master of the planet.

Jenghiz Khan and his lieutenants slaughtered more than 18,500,000 human beings.

Our present condition is the result of following the leadership of idealists and philanthropic doctrinaires, aided and abetted by the perfectly understandable demand of our captains of industry for cheap labor. To-day

When God blesses you, not only will He bless you personally, but He will bless your family, your field, your crops, and your land. According to Deuteronomy 28, God will take you who used to be the tail and make you the head.

Success is not success without a successor.

if you are the smartest person in a room, you are in the wrong room.

When ideas hang out with influence, income will always emerge.

In a 2006 speech then-senator Barack Obama gave to a group of college students, he offered these sage words about success: "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

told them that you have to earn the right to be heard. People won't just follow you because you say so. They will only follow you when you have endured, developed, grown, and sometimes suffered.

Soon I was to find that people who had been creative at one stage of growth now seemed empty of ideas—and worse, they seemed not to notice that the ground had moved up under their feet! As I grew and encountered higher ideals and new goals, what had once been acceptable now seemed lethargic at best and lethal if ignored. You can't take everyone with you just because they were with you where you were before.

They often chose the retention model: catch all you can. Often they were not leading by instinct but by tradition. They kept the peace and maintained the status quo but later became frustrated as the church suffered from their indecisive leadership.

Dad is our first definition of masculinity.

The last word about the Little Bighorn belongs to perhaps Custer's most insightful chronicler, Robert Utley. "The simplest answer, usually overlooked, is that the army lost largely because the Indians won," he writes. "To ascribe defeat entirely to military failings is to devalue Indian strength and leadership." The invasion of the Black Hills and the order to abandon the unceded lands galvanized the Lakotas and Northern Cheyennes.

When Ulysses S. Grant took the presidential oath of office on March 4, 1869, the nation that emerged out of the Civil War approached maturity—or what we might call its first maturity. All that was "appointed from of old" seemed to disappear.

What distinguished him in a moment of crisis was his self-command.

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

You'll never change the world just by complaining.

Pokaza? palcem w gór?, gdzie mieszka Bóg i urz?duje Biuro Polityczne.

To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential.

There is no limit to the good a man can do, if he doesn?t care who gets the credit.

As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in a while; a little growling goes a long way.

It is important to know when to delegate authority.