Quotes About Leadership

Wer seinem Volk Angst macht, der braucht es [...] nicht zu fürchten.

It's not enough to be a vanilla business school. It's not enough to be terrific teachers who really know their subject matter well.

The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed.

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.

Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that working for you?

Remember this presidential candidate can count.

My great great grandparents were slaves. And now I'm running for president of the United States. Is this a great country or what?!

Corruption will be enemy number one.

Thou great democratic God!… who didst pick up Andrew Jackson from the pebbles; who didst hurl him upon a war-horse; who didst thunder him higher than a throne!

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

You can't understand command till you've had it. It's the loneliest, most oppressive job in the whole world. It's a nightmare, unless you're an ox. You're forever teetering along a tiny path of correct decisions and good luck that meanders through an infinite gloom of possible mistakes.

Boys fight the wars. We'd have the brotherhood of man tomorrow if the politicians had to get out and fight.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

They made it plain to everyone, however, and above all to the king himself, that although he had plenty of troops, he did not have many men.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

He was of the mold from which great men are made. Having said of anything 'Let it be done' he at once felt not only that it was accomplished, but that he had done it himself.

If there's one thing this world needs more of, it's thoughtful Nobles," the left hand jeered.

Fasal liked to fight; Jiaan was good at planning. Together, Jiaan thought sourly, they almost made a whole officer. And if you added Jiaan's eighteen years to Fasal's seventeen, you had someone old enough to command an army as well.

Coordinating the retreat was important too, so important that Jiaan had assigned Aram as Fasal's assistant, to be sure he didn't overlook anything important. Like the fact that they were supposed to retreat.

Erasmus says that you should praise a ruler even for qualities he does not have. For the flattery gives him to think. And the qualities he presently lacks, he might go to work on them.

The multitude," Cavendish says, "is always desirous of a change. They never see a great man set up but they must pull him down--for the novelty of the thing.