Quotes About Leadership

Muck everybody but the people and then be damned careful what they turn into when they have power.

That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.

No seas idiota —dijo en voz alta—. Y no te duermas. Gobierna tu bote.

How should a woman act when she discovers her husband is a bloody coward? She's damn cruel but they're all cruel. They govern, of course, and to govern one has to be cruel sometimes.

It was like mentioning one general favourably to another general. You could always mention a general, though, that the general you were talking to had beaten. The general you were talking to would praise the beaten general greatly and go happily into detail on how he had beaten him.

Let them all go to hell, except the people, and then, when they come to power, we must be dam cautious to see what they will become.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, Impossible, when orders came?

The spectacle of its governing is at present more comic than tragic; but the tragedy is very close.

it is much easier to be the opposition to a government than to run the government yourself.

You ought to dream," Bill said. "All our biggest business men have been dreamers. Look at Ford. Look at President Coolidge. Look at Rockefeller. Look at Jo Davidson.

But an army that is made up of good and bad elements cannot win a war. All must be brought to a certain level of political development; all must know why they are fighting, and its importance. All must believe in the fight they are to make and all must accept discipline. - For Whom the Bell Tolls

Loneliness is the penalty of leadership, but the man who has to make the decisions is assisted greatly if he feels that there is no uncertainty in the minds of those who follow him, and that his orders will be carried out confidently and in expectation of success.

Who the hell are you? he said at last. The man in the center stepped forward. My name is Shackleton he replied in a quiet voice.

I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

Most people who describe themselves as visionaries are actually saying something quite different. They are abdicating their responsibility for the details. Details matter. The more someone or something matters to us, the more the details relating to them matter to us.

Ownership is not about possession; it is about responsibility. What you own matters far less than what you take ownership for. What you take responsibility for is far more important than what you think you own.

irony is that, while secular leadership has become blatantly spiritual, Christian leadership has become blatantly (and blandly) secular.

Robert's Rules of Order becomes the guiding text rather than the pattern of the apostolic church.

Jesus provides a perfect example of why ownership is not about taking possession of what's in front of you but about taking responsibility for what has been entrusted to you. The men who multiplied the master's wealth were not the owners of that wealth, but they did take ownership of it.

he never discouraged the disciples from wanting to be first; he just told them what first looks like in his economy: If you want to be first, then you must be last. If you want to be first, you must become the servant of all. He didn't try to diminish their ambition; he tried to redirect their intention.

The call to servanthood finds its power only when it is received by those who are on the pursuit of greatness.

This is what makes Jesus different than the rest of us. After Jesus knew he had all things under his power, he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with a towel that was wrapped around him.

David had one posture: servanthood. Because he saw himself as a servant, he was a shepherd like no one had ever known.

Wisdom understands that it is less important to win a fight or a point than it is to win the person. Wisdom knows that you should never fight against people; you should fight for them.