Quotes About Leadership

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

Wars are fought by children. Conceived by their mad demonic elders and fought by boys.

The secret of Washington's ability to accomplish so much was his mastery of time management. Consider his statements on time. "What to me is more valuable, my time, that I most regard," he wrote to James McHenry, September 14, 1799. Similarly, he wrote to James Anderson on December 10, 1799, "… time, which is of more importance than is generally imagined.

Thus, we find phrases such as the following in Washington's public and private writings: "A Christian Spirit," "A True Christian," "Be more of a man and a Christian," "Christian soldiers," "The little Christian," "To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian." 32

Ah,' Arthur cried out, 'I have never known one month of repose since I took up the crown. I have lost the key to contentment.

That concept is more properly known as 'caesaro-papism'; the king was now both Caesar and pope.

And so the landing party set out, leaving Weatherlight in the hands of an inexperienced pilot, a cowering lookout, and a pacifist guard.

He smiled. 'They do not follow the

Fore-runners

The capacity for leadership is one of the greatest gifts in the universe. But it brings with it a heavy burden. Never forget that.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

The most important thing about priorities and posteriorities is not intelligent analysis but courage.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

If there is any one "secret" of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.

A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.

Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.