Quotes About Leadership

This was the pattern. Brigadier General Cota, the 29th Division's assistant commander, had been setting an example almost from the moment he arrived on the beach.

la pregunta no formulada seguía siendo: ¿cuánto tiempo más debían resistir? En aquellos momentos, en las primeras horas del domingo 24 de septiembre, después de ocho días de batalla, se calculaban las fuerzas de Urquhart en menos de 2.500 hombres. Y para todos ellos solamente había una pregunta: ¿cuándo llegarán las fuerzas de Monty?

[Of Servius Galba:] He seemed more important than a private citizen while he was a private citizen, and in the opinion of all he was capable of rule—if he had not ruled.

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.

Business after all is a form of warfare; you bring all your available weapons to bear. If you don't you're a fool. ("Jane Brown's Body")

It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back!

The self-denying gentleman, who had imployed his commission of governour so little to the disadvantage of the infant-colony at Connecticut, was himself, ere long, by election made governour of that colony.

Ubi praeses fuerit Philosophus, ibi Civitas exit Foelix

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

Leaders inspire accountability through their ability to accept responsibility before they place blame.

At Lead Star, we believe that leadership can help you create a better workplace, a better life, and a better you.

Service-based leadership is a mindset: you work for your people. It is not complex; often it's the small acts of service that have the greatest impact on morale and camaraderie.

A leader is someone who influences outcomes and inspires others.

I think politics is too important to be left to politicians.

I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.

My job is to find the politicians and the presidents and the pompous people who are telling other people how to live, powerful, visible creatures and ... go at them.

God's blessings, however, aren't always bigger, better, and beautiful. In fact, I truly believe that God gifts His chosen leaders with a very unusual blessing. You might even call it a weird blessing because most of the time we call it...a burden.

If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority , you create leaders

His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart today. Decades later, long after his life on earth tragically ended, the legacy of his burden lives on, improving lives for generations to come. All because one man allowed his burden to birth a dream.

La oración te recuerda que no estás al mando y te mantiene cerca del que sí lo está.

When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders