Quotes About Leadership

Every boarding party needs its guide to light the way, its wizard to defeat the magic and a tank that kill everything that tries to stop the party. The tank is not sacrificial.

Why was it that I was always trying to handle the werewolves instead of the other way around? Maybe because Adam's other form had big claws and great big teeth.

I may have bought the business from him, but when we worked together, he still gave the orders. Part of it was habit, I suppose, but a larger part of it was that, though I am a good mechanic, Zee is magic. Literally and figuratively. If it weren't for his tendency to get bored with easy stuff, he'd never have hired me. Then I'd have had to take my liberal arts degree and gotten a job at McDonald's or Burger King like all the rest of the history majors.

You are looking at this wrong. You think I hold my territory by the might of my fist. But that's not it. I hold my territory by consent of the governed. I think it is a very American concept, which might be why you never looked for it." — Adam Hauptman, Columbia Basin Pack Alpha, to Iacopo (Jacob) Bonarata, Lord of the Night (master vampire of Milan)

The older you are, the more you fear change, even if you think you are in charge. Especially if you think you are in charge.

Not for the first time, he wished for a more facile tongue. His brother could sometimes change the Marrok's mind—but he never had. This time, Charles knew his father was wrong.

Bosses need to jump in the outhouse with the grunts occasionally. It's good for morale.

Don't you have something more important to do?" I asked him, flipping on the light on. "Like ruling the world or something" -Mercy

could land or take off from the planet. They hoped that the young Queen of Naboo would agree quickly to their demands. Then they could use Naboo as an example to persuade or force other planets to do the same. But

There are always people in any group who will go along with authority only so long as authority agrees with their opinions," Papa said.

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

Decisions by committee are almost always long in coming and dead wrong. A world-changing vision comes from one person, not five or or twenty or a hundred, and more often than not, the best of plans are laid to waste by the many.

One can save one's soul, or one can found or maintain or serve a great and glorious state; but not always both at once.

Nh?ng ??a tr? m? côi h? có chung m?t ?i?u này, cô ??n, ra ?i, ?i ??u ?? khai ???ng cho c? nhóm, làm t?t h?n nh?ng ng??i cha v?ng m?t. ?i xa h?n trong khoa h?c và ??a lý só v?i nh?ng ng??i cha không bi?t m?t.

The commissioners were only politicians anyway and easily replaced.

Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus--Charles the First, his Cromwell--and George the Third--("Treason!" shouted the Speaker) may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell ; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example . If this be treason, make the most of it.

Had Britain not declared war on Germany in 1914, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and India would not have followed the Mother Country in. Nor would Britain's ally Japan. Nor would Italy, which London lured in with secret bribes of territory from the Habsburg and Ottoman empires. Nor would America have gone to war had Britain stayed out. Germany would have been victorious, perhaps in months. There would have been no Lenin, no Stalin, no Versailles, no Hitler, no Holocaust.

The bottom line is: Your life is up to you. Take charge of it, or somebody else will.

Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

people skills and magnetism are as or more important than the actual skills involved.

All horsepower corrupts.

Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.