Quotes About Leadership

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

I like to be a strategic policy guy.

It has become starkly apparent to me that we lack any sort of strategic foreign policy view, and when I say 'we,' I mean the country in general, but in particular, the Republican Party.

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

To me, governing is communicating. That facilitates the whole job because I can listen, I can hear what people have to say, and at the same time I can let them know what are we working on, what is our strategic line, and where are we going.

I'm not the world's best philosopher. But I am one of the world's best strategists. I will put my strategic abilities against anybody on Earth.

I totally disagree with the premise that al Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Quite the contrary, al Qaeda has deliberately decentralized its operations - not because of the relentless attacks we have had on its national leadership in Pakistan, but because its strategic objective is to dominate and control Muslim countries in the region.

I believe that the idea of strategic beliefs may be more important than strategic planning when thinking about how you keep the long view.

CIOs have earned a strategic seat at the table, but now they've got to hold that seat - and the only way they can do that is to converse in the language of business value and business benefits and business outcomes that all align perfectly with the strategic agenda of the company.

You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

Europe cannot be only the receiver of strategic decisions of others, that is China or the U.S.A. We have to be strong ourselves to shape the global rules.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.

Ford had a number of different strategies over the years that they thought obviously made sense at the time, just like all the different brands, and also the regional operations.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I see it in the politicians we vote for — people who, in the face of an incredibly complicated world, are nevertheless absolutely convinced that they understand the way that the world works.

No plan survives first contact with the enemy. What matters is how quickly the leader is able to adapt.

The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the aim of being promoted to what he has.

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.

Henri Pélissier once said: 'Always attack as late as you can, but before the others do.

The disciples of Jesus were not to practice politics through the use of coercive power, but through servanthood.

It was far from good enough for de Valera, Brugha and Stack.

De Valera was back to his old tactic of taking an extreme course while sounding moderate.

It was a 'revelation' to Childers to discover that de Valera was not thinking of appealing to moderate opinion.

For as the poets and the warriors fell by the wayside the bureaucrats took over.