Quotes About Leadership

Being number two gives you the glory of being at the top without the pressure of being number one.

Let your passion guide others in life.

You are the common denominator of your life, take charge, you are the boss.

Want to really get somewhere in life? Just don't follow the crowd.

Being an entrepreneur is like being a pirate. Go for the booty and discover new, uncharted lands.

Being positive in a negative situation is not native. It's leadership.

Odysseus shrugged. "There are many ways to start a war. I always think raiding makes a good beginning. It accomplishes almost the same thing as diplomacy, but with greater profit.

There was always a leader. He was not the largest, and he need not be the captain, but he was the one they looked to for instruction in their cruelty. He had a cold eye and a coiling tension. Like a snake, the poets might say, but I knew snakes better by then.

He will be a good ruler, I thought. Fair-minded and warm. He will not be consumed like his father was. He had never been hungry for glory, only for life.

The answer that came to me was from a different tale. Long ago, in my wide bed, I had asked Odysseus: "What did you do? When you could not make Achilles and Agamemnon listen?" He'd smiled in the firelight. "That is easy. You make a plan in which they do not.

I had asked Odysseus: 'What did you do? When you could not make Achilles and Agamemnon listen?' He'd smiled in the firelight. 'That is easy. You make a plan in which they do not.

The generals take the credit, of course, and indeed they provide the gold. But they are always calling you into their tent and asking for reports of what you're doing instead of letting you go do it.

Come, I have fed you well. Will you tell me your names?" They looked up. Their eyes darted like ferrets to their leader. He rose, the bench scraping on the stone. "Tell us yours first." There was something in his voice. I almost said it then, the spell-word that would send them to sleep. But even after all the years that had passed, there was a piece of me that still only spoke what I was bid. "Circe," I answered.

Ve con cuidado mañana, eres el mejor de los hombres, el mejor de los mirmidones.

Aquiles estaba lleno de gracia, como una bendición, y los hombres alzaban los rostros hacia él como los fieles se orientan hacía un sacerdote.

I yanked my gaze to Odysseus and Diomedes, and was horrified to see them smiling. 'Greeting, Price Achilles,' Odysseus said. 'We've been looking for you.

Se inclinaban hacia él como las flores hacia el sol, ávidos de recibir su brillo. Era lo que había dicho Ulises una vez: él tenía luz suficiente para hacerles héroes a todos.

He is offended, it seems, so the omens say, at the treatment of his dedicated servant. Chryses." Agamemnon's shoulders were rigid.

King Agamemnon." Achilles stepped forward. His voice was easy, almost amused. "I don't think anyone has forgotten that you are leader of this host. But you do not seem to remember that we are kings in our own right, or princes, or heads of our families. We are allies, not slaves." A few men nodded; more would have liked to.

Your words today have caused your own death, and the death of your men. I will fight for you no longer. Without me, your army will fall. Hector will grind you to bones and bloody dust, and I will watch it and laugh. You will come, crying for mercy, but I will give none. They will all die, Agamemnon, for what you have done here.

Odysseus found the original trouble-causing soldier—Thersites, his name was—and had him beaten quietly into unconsciousness. That was the end of mutinies at Troy.

Because, dear King of Argos, if war comes after some diplomacy or delay, we do not seem so much the villains.

If he was nervous, even I could not tell. I watched as he greeted them, spoke ringing words that made them stand up straighter. They grinned, loving every inch of their miraculous prince: his gleaming hair, his deadly hands, his nimble feet. They leaned toward him, like flowers to the sun, drinking in his luster. It was as Odysseus had said: he had light enough to make heroes of them all.

The crowd shouted its approval--they liked their commanders generous, their heroes bold and lusty.