Quotes About Leadership

The degree to which a leader is able to delegate work is a measure of his success. A one-person office can never grow larger than the load one person can carry. Failing

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

Mr. President, I have blood on my hands.

Rather, Caesar's proper and limited task is to bring a measure of order to present society, to anticipate in specific acts of judgment (putting-to-rights) such elements of God's final putting-to-rights as can be done within the present age.37 Part of our difficulty in today's world is that we are completely unclear about what it is that governments can do, and should try to do, and how they should go about finding a moral basis for doing it.

We rise in popwer and make a difference in the world due to what is best about human nature, but we fall from power due to what is worst.

Using a combination of history, common sense, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, every leader can generally predict the way things will go.

There is nothing wrong with assistants who are constantly learning from outside ministers. But there is something very wrong when these associates never seem to learn from their own pastors.

Make sure that you are doing a job suited to your particular temperament. If you are a choleric person, find a leadership job that is suitable for choleric people. If you are phlegmatic, ask to be excused from jobs that require a driving, leadership personality!

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.

True leaders are those who can offer appropriate advice based on their own rich experience, not people who just give orders and are all words and no substance. Leaders are first people of action who lead by personal example. They are not people who merely occupy some status or position. Leaders are people of hard work, not people of tactics and maneuvering. Above all, they are not authoritarians.

1. Become people who seek the truth, create value and possess wisdom and enthusiasm. 2. Do not cause trouble to others, and always take responsibility for your own actions. 3. Be considerate and polite, reject violence and value trustworthiness and cooperation. 4. Boldly speak out for your beliefs and act courageously for the sake of truth and justice. 5. Cultivate an enterprising spirit and become respectable leaders of Japan and the world.

The man who never makes mistakes always takes orders from one who does.

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.

Como sabéis, conocí a vuestro padre, majestad. Pero he de deciros que creo que preferiría teneros a vos a mi lado en el campo de batalla.

To be a queen, you have to be more than a little girl with a crown.

To be a queen, you have to be more than a little girl with a crown." – Lady Flora Hastings

Every leader-writer who thunders 'Galileo' at us assumes that we know even less about Galileo than he does.

Politicians now think they have to educate the electorate and explain to them what is good for them. Gone are the days when the electorate educated their representatives .