Quotes About Leadership

The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here.

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

On taking office as General Secretary in 1985 I was immediately faced with an avalanche of problems. It was vital to change our relationship with the West, particularly the United States, and to bring the costly and dangerous arms race to an end. We needed to withdraw from the damaging and costly war in Afghanistan. The Soviet Union faced tremendous internal problems. The process of reform required new leadership and courage.

Perhaps I lost as a politician, perhaps my self-confidence played a trick on me because I did not recognize the double threat – from zealots and radicals, and from reactionaries in my immediate surroundings. Nonetheless, perestroika won. A relapse into the past is out of the question.

We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

No matter how bad the lord is, the lout become a lord is ten times worse.

I have good relationships with Hillary Clinton, Joseph Biden and especially Richard Holbrooke - he is my teacher. I learned a lot of great things from him.

Such is the psychology of crowds that the majority will follow whoever appeared to be in power...

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

That was my gift -- having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go letting them play what they knew, and above it.

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

He moves fastest who moves alone.

I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.

Nesta terra, só os políticos podem dormir e acordar de bom humor.

congressman was a hog that could understand only a blow on the snout.

The leader beyond the millennium will not be the leader who has learned the lessons of how to do.... The leader of today and the future will be focused on how to be ... how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage. —Frances Hesselbein

But ideas can make men forget their own interests. And the guys in charge will exploit men who believe in ideas too much.

I'll take care of myself and my people. You think I'd trust my life to a bunch of politicians? The people in charge don't know anything. And the ones who do don't care.

All these people - both the Japanese and the Koreans - are fucked because they keep thinking about the group. But here's the truth: There's no such thing as a benevolent leader.

There's no such thing as a benevolent leader. ... Those communists don't care about you. They don't care about anybody.

I'll take care of myself and my people. You think I'd trust my life to a bunch of politicians? The people in charge don't know anything. And the ones who do don't care." Sunja

But here's the truth: There's no such thing as a benevolent leader.