Quotes About Leadership

Why aren't our leaders advocating for conversation and understanding? DC has ceased to be that shining city on a hill, the very best representation of who we are as a nation.

Taking a look at the last decades, it stands to reason that feeding our fears has made us easier to lead, saddling us with only black and white choices on issues nuanced by fifty shades of gray. Divide the people and conquer. Calming down the masses may not be on any leader's agenda, in any party. I suspect no one is coming to save us; we can only save ourselves.

They could not make out the exact words coming from their captain's mouth, but it was fairly clear he wasn't reciting poetry.

any poet who writes for the world beyond his own threshold should have something in his nature of the statesman.

Everything outside of here is vulnerable, but this tower, this room, is where we can make a stand if we have to. This is our Alamo. Everybody died at the Alamo. What's the midway, the Little Big Horn? Ethan looked at her, exasperated. She shrugged. I'm just saying that ifyou want to rally the troops, avoid the A word.

This is the deal, honey—" "The name's Sunny, not Honey." "It's a natural law. In every situation in life, someone has to be in charge. If it's a situation I'm a part of, then I'm the one in charge.

Reputation is the road to power

Obama once reportedly told his aides, "[It] turns out I'm really good at killing people.

There was a time, long ago, when I used to clamour for the hard work: now I like to give the youngsters a chance.

That's Harris all over—so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.

So ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.

Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside," is a safe rule for those who would always retain the good opinion of that all-powerful, but somewhat unintelligent, incubus, "the average person," but the pioneer, the guide, is necessary. That is, if the world is to move forward.

Throw the lumber over, man!

But I've won, she said. I'm dying further forward. I've helped advance the line.

The only allowable relationship between us is that of a servant. I am free to serve you. I am not free to "boss" you. This

He was the Grand Marshall of our Everyday Parade

It was a rebellion she led, a rebellion for rather than against.

Such a man became a leader, one of the great men, who guided people in their thoughts and deeds, as a weaver guides his colored threads through the intricacies of the pattern.

It was under his leadership, said Gavrila, that the Red Army was defeating the Germans and bringing to the liberated peoples a new way of life which made all equal. There would be no rich and poor, no exploiters and no exploited, no persecution of the dark by the fair, no people doomed to gas chambers.

The Party was to the working people what the engine is to a train. It led others toward the best goals, it pointed out shortcuts to an improvement of their lives. And Stalin was the engineer at the throttle of this engine.

A gardener! Isn't that the perfect description of what a real businessman is?

I could write for days about the disappointment of politics.

Always speak first to the toughest person in the room.

Venture capitalists, with the exception of people like Don Valentine, would tell you that they'd rather fund a great team than a great idea. The reason is that if they have a bad idea, great teams can figure out a better one. Mediocre people even with a great idea can screw it up in its execution. Or if they have a bad idea, then they aren't going to be in a position to think about how to change it. They're just going to pursue it blindly.