Quotes About Leadership

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game—it is the game.

It's been said that every institution is nothing but the extended shadow of one person.

management doesn't change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

It isn't a question of whether elephants can prevail over ants. It's a question of whether a particular elephant can dance. If it can, the ants must leave the dance floor.

E xecution—getting the task done, making it happen—is the most unappreciated skill of an effective business leader.

envisioning System/360 was one thing. Making it a reality required the equivalent of a man-on-the-moon program. It cost nearly as much. Tom Watson's memoir noted that the investment required—$5 billion (that's 1960s dollars!)—was larger than what the Manhattan Project cost.

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game—it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.

Do not follow the bad example which I have set you; I have often undertaken war too lightly and have sustained it for vanity. Do not imitate me, but be a peaceful prince, and may you apply yourself principally to the alleviation of the burdens of your subjects

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

In ordering one's self aright one helps others to do the same.

Women have been called queens a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

Confucius had said, "If a ruler's words be good, is it not also good that no one oppose them? But if they are not good, and no one opposes them, may there not be expected from this one sentence the ruin of his country?"220

Zi zhi tong jian (Comprehensive mirror for aid in governance), the famous annalistic history on the period written between 1067 and 1084 A.D.,

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.

This book should be sent to the White House, and to our earnest Attorney General, and to everyone in this country able to read—which may, however, alas, be a most despairing statement. We love—the white Americans, I mean—the notion of the little woman behind the great man: perhaps one day, Louise Meriwether will give us her version of What Every Woman Knows.

We see it when bullies are in charge. It becomes part of the culture of an institution, a family, an ethnic group, a country. It becomes not just acceptable, but expected. Applauded even.

Most people want to be led. But suppose they choose the wrong leader? They end up with the Donner party.