Quotes About Leadership

Although Grandpa never put it in words for me, one thing I learned from him was that being admired gives you more power than being feared.

When a leader used his power over the ruled for the purpose of settling scores and inflating his self-esteem, for remaking society according to his own grand designs, class warfare and genocide ensued.

he dreamed of being director of the FBI instead of attorney general. Considering some of the unsavory characters who had held the latter post, Milo didn't have the credentials for it.

grossly evil people or very stupid people—or evil stupid people—are in charge of almost everything, and the good smart people are afraid to oppose them because the evil people are vicious and the stupid people are too clueless to see where all this is going, and the people who are both evil and stupid, well, they're the worst of all.

These are very powerful people.

You represent them?

He is the CEO of Refine, a multibillion-dollar division of a mega-valued conglomerate.

To Carson, Hayden Eckman said, "The AG called me himself, a few hours ago. He made a persuasive argument.

whoever solved the knot was destined to rule all of Asia, he simply sliced it with his sword.

To justify murdering tens of millions, Stalin is reputed to have said, "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

This is an age when freedoms are fragile. Those in power speak loudly, ceaselessly about compassion but rarely exhibit any.

Jason Bookman, right hand to Parable founder, Dorian Purcell, and his pilot died today in the crash of a helicopter owned by the company.

politicians were tearing down a thousand years of civilization brick by brick but weren't building anything to replace it.

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Even if I were in charge of making policy,' Zachariah said, 'I'd take the same course Dr Tamaguchi has.

I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; by paths they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.

If God is your copilot, trade places.

Everything going well in here?" Steve asked, stepping into the room to check their progress. "Moving like a runaway freight train," Cassie assured him. "Then slow down. There's no need to rush." "Aye, aye, Captain," she teased. He smiled and returned to the kitchen, where he was laying down linoleum with George. "Steve says that at the pace we're

the Girl Scout Cookie drives I'd organized, and how I'd been class mother for both Paul and Allie in their grade-school years. The last year Paul was in junior high, I'd been president of the PTA. My kids' teeth were straight, and they both were grounded and obtained above-average grades.

you need to take the initiative.

It's said that there are men who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened.

Women who can't be close to their husbands have a propensity to develop a self-absorbing, spiritual intimacy with spiritual leaders—be they men or women.

The way he handled this would set the tone for how this whole thing would be treated by the team. He leveled a stare at his best post player. "Rafe, I don't even want to know what you just

Feel-good factor If you want a promotion but come across as aloof or reserved, you'll be overlooked in favor of someone who has warm "people skills"—skills that make others feel good about being around them.