Quotes About Leadership

You ever read Machiavelli?" I said. "I imagine somebody mentioned him to me at Harvard." "He argued that it is better to be feared than loved," I said.

He was probably stud duck at the Rotary Club cookouts. I could have taken him while whistling the Michigan fight song and balancing a seal on my nose.

Ollie do any of his own work?" "Mostly he runs things.

It's better to be feared than loved. Because you can't make them love you. But you can make them fear you.

How to Manage Performance

You read in every textbook that cliché: Power corrupts. In my opinion, I've learned that power does not always corrupt. Power can cleanse. When you're climbing to get power, you have to use whatever methods are necessary, and you have to conceal your aims. Because if people knew your aims, it might make them not want to give you power.

The most important speaks to the issue of character and integrity, traits noted in many of his ERs. He was more concerned with the welfare of his men than with his own advancement, a rare trait in the Air Force and a sign of a great leader.

Sun Tzu, said the best commander is the one who wins while avoiding battle. The intent is to shatter cohesion, produce paralysis, and bring about collapse of the adversary by generating confusion, disorder, panic, and chaos. Boyd said war is organic and compared his technique to clipping the nerves, muscles, and tendons of an enemy, thus reducing him to jelly.

That frail and stooped old man is Bud Day. That is Misty 1.

When America goes to war, finding troops with brave hearts is not a problem. The problem is finding the right men to lead them.

From the day he assumed command, Krulak's leadership theory was the same one he had learned from Holland Smith in the Caribbean and from Lemuel Shepherd in the Pacific: training, training, and more training.

AFTER World War II, General Holland M. Smith said that if Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, the great battles of the Pacific were won in the Caribbean.

Marines say that the difference between a Marine general and God is that God doesn't think he is a general. If Krulak decreed that a new world would be created in two weeks, his will would be done. And it was.

Every leader who wants to make significant change needs a "resident son of a bitch" who can make hard decisions without regard to rank or personality.

Stone touched the air with the tip of his chopstick as if he was dotting an i with a quill pen. "Your talker there, he's Sang Ki Park. He doesn't run the gang. That would be his uncle, Young Min Park. Sang is the second in command. They're Ssang Yong Pa—the Double Dragon gang—straight out of the R-O-K. Hard-core and nasty." ROK was the Republic of Korea. I

Jonathan Green nodded again, then stared at the far wall for what seemed like several minutes. No one moved, and no one spoke. All of the other attorneys stared at Jonathan as if he might suddenly utter some dictum and they would have to act on it. Apprehensive.

Ellis said, "Look, Mr. Warren signs the checks, right? He says jump, I say which side of my ass you want me to land on?

The most debilitating characteristic of even the most well-behaved psychopath is the inability to form a workable team.

Discovering the inapplicability of Judeo-Christian morality in certain circumstances involving affairs of state can be searing. The rare individuals who have recognized the necessity of violating such morality, acted accordingly, and taken responsibility for their actions are among the most necessary leaders for their countries, even as they have caused great unease .. - In Defense of Henry Kissinger, The Atlantic 2013 May http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/p...

America is fated to lead. That is the judgment of geography as it has played out over the past two and a half centuries.

In the interest of thinking tragically in order to avoid tragedy, policy makers need to worry about how not to provoke more anarchy than the world has already seen.

simply because a nation is a democracy does not mean that its foreign policy will necessarily turn out to be better or more enlightened than that of a dictatorship.

Democracy and morality are simply not synonymous

politicians were prisoners of misguided