Quotes About Leadership

It has been often said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts.

The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leading them away from their unwanted selves.

A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action

A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action. It is usually an advantage to a movement, and perhaps a prerequisite for its endurance, that these roles should be played by different men succeeding each other as conditions require. When the same person or persons (or the same type of person) leads a movement from its inception to maturity, it usually ends in disaster.

needs the iron will, daring and vision of an exceptional leader to concert and mobilize existing attitudes and impulses into the collective drive of a mass movement.

En resumen, y contra lo que pudiera parecer, el siglo XX mostró que se puede gobernar contra todo el pueblo por algún tiempo, y contra una parte del pueblo todo el tiempo, pero no contra todo el pueblo todo el tiempo

Number two is just the leader for the rest of the leaders

In this business, he who shot last died first

Which is why, from the Inca Empire to the Soviet Union, extractive societies have been prone to collapse. Power naturally flows to the top. We've established that. But where power flows to the top and stays there, without correction or recirculation, a society is likely to die a catastrophic death.

Remind yourself and others that power is in fact infinite—that we can create it where it does not exist. Our final strategy for doing that is simply this: act powerful. When we act powerful we become powerful. That plays out in the poses and stances we strike in civic life, in the art we make together in everyday life, and in the reality of minority rule.

The story of El Centro's creation and flourishing reminds us that civic power may not require a plan—but it does require a purpose.

I'll be looking for patriotic, honorable, bright young men from the right backgrounds to manage the various departments. In other words, no Jews or Negroes, and very few Catholics, and that's only because I'm a Catholic.

Although European protest marches had focused mainly on the United States for the previous six years, it was the leadership of Western Europe who most strongly opposed creating a world without nuclear weapons.

Great leaders sometimes need to appear unbalanced, he thought: "What seems 'balanced' and 'safe' in a crisis is often the most risky.

There is no question that the best project managers are also outstanding leaders. They have vision, they motivate, they bring people together, and, most of all, they accomplish great things.

Human beings are naturally hierarchical beasts. Democracy is not their native religion.

En amour, on appelle ça un étalon; en politique, un démagogue. Le secret de la réussite, c'est de ne penser qu'à la jouissance de l'autre.

One of the most obvious explanations is that the leaders undertake many actions that make it possible for them to pretend they are doing something effective to avoid a catastrophe: endless conferences, resolutions, disarmament talks, all give the impression that the problems are recognized and something is being done to resolve them.

I told him a story, Calista. People will follow you anywhere if you tell them a tale they desperately want to believe. It's astonishing, really, how gullible even the most skeptical person can be if he or she wants to believe.

Las decisiones sobre asuntosimportantes no las debe tomar una sola persona. Deben discutirse entre muchas.

Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an "I" in "team." It is the same "I" that appears three times in "responsibility."

The mind is the master and the body is the servant.

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.