Quotes About Leadership

A good company offers excellent products and services. A great company also offers excellent products and services but also strives to make the world a better place.

He that would govern others, first should beThe master of himself.

He that would govern others first should be master of himself.

There is more to being a great leader than just doing a task well. There is communication, empathy, respect, and compassion. You do the last one well and they will jump thru hurdles for you.

staff are terrified of them, and not without reason.

have fired more people than any comparable employer unit in the world. They make Lord Beaverbrook look like Jesus.

out" party in politics. It was transformed into a national party under the leadership of Benjamin Disraeli. He had to devise an appeal that made the party relevant to the problems of the day. This he did: To the corpus of Conservative beliefs he added adherence to the notion of One Nation—that is, One Nation at Home and One Nation Abroad. Domestically, this meant that the party would not divide the nation in the interests of one class but would look after the interest

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minister, developed in importance during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

pursuing its own interests rather than the interests of the government as a whole.

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with a large parliamentary majority; the Conservative

Historically, these have included making treaties, the appointment and dismissal of ministers, dispensing

minutes and for monitoring the implementation of cabinet decisions. Previously, implementation had been very much dependent

Power to determine the direction of policy is not confined to the blunt weapon of appointment and dismissal. It

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The theme of previous editions of The British Polity has

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There was more than a little truth in Trotsky's angry accusation of April 1912, after he had suffered the theft of the title of his journal [ Pravda ], that Lenin nourished himself on discord and chaos. But so did all revolutionary politicians, for revolutionary changes issue from profound crises. The bloody trenches of World War I created an enormous new revolutionary constituency, and only those leaders who knew how to exploit it would be prepared for the struggles that lay ahead.

Uncle knows best. -All the Lost Boys

Most of the time he didn't even bother to look back at the boy struggling along behind him on his weary pony. He just tossed words over his shoulder and expected Ansel to catch them.

Whether or not a monarch or a mass leader has great executive ability or power, modern politics suggests that his primary function may well be psychological; he acts as a center around which otherwise disturbed lives can be organized.

Leadership is not equivalent to office-holding or high prestige or authority or decision-making. It is not helpful to identify leadership with whatever is done by people in high places. The activity we have in mind may or may not be engaged in by those who are formally in positions of authority. This is inescapable if we are to develop a theory that will be useful in diagnosing cases of inadequate leadership on the part of persons in authority.

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.