Quotes About Leadership

He was proud of his hatred as of everything else. Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dulness takes the lead in the world?

is a game as ancient as recorded history. Promote a troublesome thorn up and out of the way if you cannot crush him, and then, once gone, impose whatever was planned in the first place.

That had always been the power of media in the hands of a good leader. To get individuals to feel as if the leader was speaking directly

William R. Forstchen

I have reached the conclusion he lacks that moral authority, and sadly, by extension, I must include in that now those who appointed him to his post. They are not lawful orders, and most certainly they are not moral orders.

He knew far too many like Fredericks who, while mouthing platitudes, actually held everyone in secret disdain, because they as "leaders" knew what was best "for the people.

Machiavelli said a prince had to transcend traditional morality for the greater good of those he led.

You are no longer in the halls of the White House or wherever you served, whomever you were assigned to. This is not some public relations job where you bullshit a stupid press corps and when the questioning gets too tough, you say time is up.

We did have a lot to do with it. We had all grown so fat, so complacent, and we always let someone else worry about such things, even though we knew that those we allowed to be in charge were far too often incompetent—or worse, self-serving and blind in their arrogance.

All I can say is that there is indeed a crisis here. We cannot speak to one another in a meaningful way, every one of us is a leader, a general of the army, a king, a president, the greatest thinker of all time, and so on and so forth. This is the curse of the Armenian race.

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.

Let me have men about me that are fat, ...Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look, He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.

When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!

Let every man be master of his time.

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous