Quotes About Leadership

battles are decided more by the morale of the troops than by their bodily strength.

Misleaders are slow to work hard but quick to act on greed. They convince their men that dishonest behavior leads to great wealth.

Most of us are always trying to increase our wealth, but you and your officers seem far more concerned with perfecting your souls.

men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them.

When the interests of mankind are at stake, they will obey with joy the man whom they believe to be wiser than themselves.

How can you say that princes have the greatest power of subduing their enemies, when they are sensible that all are their enemies, who are subject to their rule?

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

I don't know who first said it, but this proverb is something I believe: A lion leading a lot of sheep can defeat a sheep leading many lions. The important part is that I must decide when I am a lion and when I must be a sheep. I don't believe you are always one or the other.

In the final analysis,power is a misunderstanding: you think you know then you realize you have made a thumping mistake.

Dans un pays où les décideurs s'évertuent à construire une villa à leurs rejetons là où il est question de leur bâtir une nation, il n'est pas rare de rencontrer des talents chevronnés trimer au fond des gargotes afin de joindre les deux bouts...

Fox: It's lonely at the top. Gould: But it ain't crowded.

Reuther yearned to be near the center of power, and Johnson was masterly at the twin arts of flattery and manipulation, making Reuther feel that he was the president's confidant.

Like many very rich people, Ford did not have to sell himself; Iacocca knew no other way. "He had a lot of ability," Ford later said of Iacocca. "Unfortunately his ability lies ninety-nine percent in sales. But it isn't only in selling cars—it's selling everything.

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Shorten is one of that interesting pack of politicians born of determined mothers and largely absent fathers. There are so many: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair are distinguished alumni. Among recent Labor leaders in Australia are Rudd, Albanese and Shorten. Among the qualities these men share are self-discipline, boundless ambition and an appetite for approval on a national scale.

Where Abbott was most himself, Shorten beat a retreat. "For Labor, national security is – and always will be – above politics," he says but what he means is that Labor will buckle whenever the government declares security is at stake.

There was no factional discipline in the drift towards Rudd. Individuals were making up their own minds. In some worlds, that's how politics works.

Abbott joined the union, the Australian Journalists' Association. He led a little strike at the Bulletin and opposed a big strike at the Australian.

After announcing the scheme, Abbott sought with some charm the absolution of his startled party. "Sometimes," he said, "it is better to ask forgiveness rather than permission.

Abbott thought Turnbull's leadership was terminal at that moment. What he was hearing was a bar-room brawl between his leader and the guru of a great swathe of the Liberal Party. This was no way to deal with Alan Jones. Turnbull wasn't showing the necessary respect. It would cause immense damage.

the far right where politicians are spending so much energy harvesting votes these days is not Australia. Nearly all of us are somewhere else, scattered around the centre, waiting for a government that will take this good, prosperous, generous country into the future.

They were wary of each other at first, but in time formed a tight alliance that lasted twenty years until it came unstuck over the execution of Julia Gillard.

Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society.

Imagine - a thousand Eleanors ruling under a thousand suns.