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Quotes About Leadership

like fire and fusion, government is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Any human organization can be rendered useless, impotent, a danger to itself, by selectively removing its best minds while carefully leaving the stupid ones in place.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The general drops with a small combat staff, plus a small team of the roughest, on-the-bounce troopers in the M.I. Their job is to keep the general from being bothered by rude strangers while he is managing the battle. Sometimes they succeed.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Zeb should command while Jacob handled space-time controls—to each his own. Jacob had asked me to please take orders from Zeb with no back talk … which had miffed me a little.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Boss, you're nitpicking to avoid admitting that it was your fault, not mine.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Yo descargo a mis ministros de muchos de esos aburridos trabajos de colocar primeras piedras y asistir a los desfiles, ya sabe.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
that "pusillanimous Presbyterian parson" in the White House. "'Too proud to fight'! What sort of talk is that? It requires pride in order to fight. A coward slinks away with his tail between his legs. Brian, we need Teddy Roosevelt back in there!
~ Robert A. Heinlein
v naÅ¡em systému je každý voli? a úÃ…â"¢edník ?lovÄ›k, který prokázal dobrovolnou a t?žkou službou, že klade dobro skupiny nad osobní výhody.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
jak se jednou dostanete do sledu velení, musíte být neustále pÃ…â"¢ipraveni pÃ…â"¢ijmout vyšší velení. Jste-li v oddíle o jedné ?etÄ› - dost pravdÄ›podobné, v nynÄ›jÅ¡ím stadiu války - a jste pomocníkem velitele ?ety, když to váÅ¡ velitel koupí... pak... vy ... jste... jím!
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Ale mám na mysli pÃ…â"¢ípad, kdy byly smeteny ?tyÃ…â"¢i úrovnÄ› velení v Å¡esti minutách - jako kdyby si velitel ?ety protÃ…â"¢el o?i a zjistil, že velí brigádÄ›. SlyÅ¡eli jste o tom?
~ Robert A. Heinlein
combat team in the Galaxy into a leaderless, lawless, fear-crazed mob. "The whole merciless load will land without warning. You must act at once and you'll have only God over you. Don't expect Him to fill in tactical details;
~ Robert A. Heinlein
She called out, All stations manned and ready, Captain! He looked at her and grinned. Stand by to raise ship! She answered, Board green! Clear from tower! Ready for count off! Minus thirty! Twenty-nine—twenty-eight— He broke off and added sheepishly, It does feel good.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Oh, no, Sharpie. I've stood my watch; it's somebody else's turn. Now that you have resigned, we have no organization.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I told her that no born leader seeks command; the mantle descends on him, he wears the burden because he must.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
One night I had been forced to reason with my darling; Hilda felt that I should lead our little band. I was oldest
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Won't discuss bookkeeping this firm used. Since Mike ran everything, was not corrupted by any tinge of honesty.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
İdareli bir demokrasi muhteÅŸem bir ÅŸeydir, Manuel, idare edenler için... en büyük gücü de 'Özgür'ün 'sorumluluk sahibi ' olarak tan?mland??? ve neyin 'sorumsuz ' olduÄŸunu idarecilerin belirlediÄŸi 'özgür bas?n'd?r.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
A person with passion typically exudes confidence, and confidence creates value for themselves and others by leading the way, not showing the way. " - David Lucatch, founder and CEO of Yappn Corp.
~ Robert Andrews
Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Those who take a Dominant imprint in this system seek power all their lives; those with a Submissive imprint seek Dominant types to lead them (the Reichian Fuhrerprinzip) and most people settle somewhere between these extremes, taking a masochist stance toward those above them (government, landlords etc.) and a sadist stance toward selected victims defined as below them (wives, children, inferior races, people on Welfare, etc.).
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Wilson emphasizes that this model describes not only many, many infamous criminals, but quite a few of the more infamous statesmen and churchmen of history, who were not called criminals only because they were powerful enough to define what was crime in their society. Since these types have a strong power drive, most of history, as Wilson sees it, is Criminal History, the record of the crimes of one type of male.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Confucius (as the barbarians call him) also taught that, "When the government is honest, the people will learn honesty by example; when the government is crooked, the people will learn to be thieves also.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
You become a leading Expert by acting as if everybody else's opinion deserves no attention and never even deserves the courtesy of an answer.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
In times of crisis, it is of the utmost importance that one does not lose her head. Marie Antoinette
~ Robert Asprin