Quotes About Leadership

People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain those at the bottom

Politicians only get to the top because they have no qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

War is too important to be left to the generals.

My bosses would tell you that I've often acted as a sounding board for them. With all three of my bosses, we've mentored each other, although the obvious balance of wisdom and expertise was theirs. I was always helpful to them in their decisions about customer problems.

Although I can work effectively in most environments, I prefer environments where people are their own bosses, within reason. I like to have a goal but be able to draw my own map to get there. To accomplish goals, I rely on asking questions and finding people receptive, so cooperation and access are important to me in a work group.

You have to have more leadership, less management. It's about getting stuff done, you can sit around and analyze things forever but while you do that the competition has moved on.

Much later, (S.A.Ayer) credited (Subhas Chandra) Bose with combining in his person "the qualities of Akbar, Shivaji and Vivekananda," which is a little like saying that Charles de Gaulle was Joan of Arc, Louis XIV and Victor Hugo all rolled into one.

If the rest of your brain were conscious, it would probably regard you as the pointy-haired boss from Dilbert

GRUNTS LOOK THE ENEMY IN THE EYE. GRUNTS KNOW THE STAKES. GRUNTS KNOW THE PRICE OF POOR STRATEGY. WHAT DO THE GENERALS KNOW? OVERLAYS AND TACTICAL PLOTS. THE WHOLE CHAIN OF COMMAND IS UPSIDE-DOWN. –KENNETH LUBIN, ZERO SUM

LEADERS ARE VISIONARIES WITH A POORLY DEVELOPED SENSE OF FEAR AND NO CONCEPT OF THE ODDS AGAINST THEM. —ROBERT JARVIK

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Seguid a los menos, y no al vulgo" (Petrarca)

Cuando no se puede resolver un problema, se crea un comité de expertos, según dijo una vez un político.

Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.

I was in the military for over ten years! If you can't read a battlefield you could accidentally surrender to your own officers, which is super embarrassing, if only because it'll get you shot.

As a leader your job is to do everything in your power to create the perfect conditions for success by benching your ego and inspiring your team to play the game the right way. But at some point, you need to let go and turn yourself over to the basketball gods. The soul of success is surrendering to what is.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy. STEVE JOBS

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.

It's always the old to lead us to the wars,Always the young to fall.

It's always the old to lead us to the war It's always the young to fall Now look at all we've won with the saber and the gun Tell me is it worth it all For I stole California from the Mexican land Fought in the bloody Civil War Yes I even killed my brothers And so many others But I ain't marchin' anymore

While risky behavior might be expected, even praised in a visionary Lead Pastor, second chair leaders are not always known for being risk takers.

He who loves me, let him follow me.

Never promote someone who hasn't made some bad mistakes, because if you do, you are promoting someone who has never done anything.

A ruler who failed to manage China's waters didn't just risk social decay. He exposed himself to the charge that heaven itself had lost confidence in his capacity to rule. This idea is attributed to the Duke of Zhou