Quotes About Leadership

Being a football manager is no fun at all. You have to put up with all the hassle. It is not surprising that so many turn grey or have heart attacks.

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

With The King Center as her base, my mother pressed on to fulfill a role that changed lives and legislation. She was a woman who refused to surrender the reigns of what she knew to be her assignment, even when male civil rights and business leaders tried to convince her that she should leave the work of building her husband's legacy to them.

I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.

I won't let the grudge Netanyahu and those who surround him have against me hurt the country.

I surround myself, not with yes men, but people who have their own ideas and are on board with with I want to do.

Here's a simple truth: When you surround a good idea with brilliant people, it changes. No matter how much you plan, great ideas have a mind of their own.

Business is just like sports: if you're the best in the group that you run in, you're never going to get any better. It's the same thing in business. I surround myself with people who are smarter than me and have more experience than me, and I have gotten a lot of great advice.

One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.

When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.

Elizabeth is a good model for those of us who have inherited a church that's rich in wisdom but feeling spent. Can we who are older greet emergent experimenters with attentiveness and zeal? This is not a matter of ceding spiritual ground to the young, but of joining our vitality to theirs. Elizabeth was just as pregnant as Mary with something new.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

You can hold an important public office forever in our country with no qualifications for it but a clean nose, a photogenic face, and a close mouth. If on top of that you look good on a horse, you are unbeatable.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who

The Empire is all those who live within its borders, from the nobles to the lowest servant, even the slaves who work the fields. It must be seen as a whole, not as being embodied by some small but visible part, such as the Warlord or the High Council.

Good," said Creed. "I always like it when a captain has a plan; makes getting killed a lot less random.

Warlords who fail in conducting war tend to fall from grace quickly.

A hunt leader could not show fear, or let it linger in his stomach, for others would sense it soon enough, taste that fear and become possessed by it. They would hesitate when an order was given, and uncertainty would claim their life as readily as the blade of the enemy.

in kings people overlook and forgive behaviour they would not tolerate in others.

Train those around you well, Pug. Make them powerful, but make them loving, generous men and women as well.

a lot of what makes one man a ruler and another not is simply a willingness to be wrong.

Kroldech isn't fit to command fleas attacking a dog.

Sergeant Harper.

Women Strike for Peace was founded by women who were tired of making the coffee and doing the typing and not having any voice or decision-making role in the antinuclear movement of the 1950s. Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.