Quotes About Leadership

By this axe I rule!

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

Well-liked… a dangerous quality in a leader.

You don't correct a president. You merely compliment them on their wisdom in seeking your counsel.

new fresh faces of the Republic.

By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

Working faithfully 8 hours a day, you may eventually get to be the boss and work 12 hours a day.

12--Lose Battles, But Win The War: Grand Strategy Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.

A Prince asked the dying spanish statesman, Does your Excellency forgive all your enemies? I do not have to forgive all my enemies, answered the stateman, I have had them all shot.

Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emperors crown themselves.

Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid.

If you lead the sucker down a familiar path, he won't catch on when you lead him into a trap.

For what the leaders are, that, as a rule, will the men below them be. —Xenophon (430?–355? B.C.)

Impatience, on the other hand, only makes you look weak. It is a principal impediment to power. Power

Power rarely ends up in the hands of those who start a revolution, or even of those who further it; power sticks to those who bring it to a conclusion.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power.

Acted like a king to be treated like one.

Napoleon advised: Place your iron hand inside a velvet glove.

The truth is that everything starts from the top. What determines your failure or success is your style of leadership and the chain of command that you design.

Renaissance diplomat and courtier Niccolò Machiavelli wrote, "Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.