Quotes About Leadership

In the Second World War his bulldog obstinacy proved invaluable; during the Gallipoli campaign it left him appallingly vulnerable.

The temptation to tell a chief in a great position the things he most likes to hear is one of the commonest explanations of mistaken policy,' he had written.

Never confuse leadership with popularity.'158

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

He had that ruthless side without which great affairs cannot be handled.

His high, uplifting oratory during the Second World War was clearly prefigured more than thirty years earlier.

In war, men are nothing, but one man is everything

This was a time when it was equally good to live or die. Churchill, Their Finest Hour

When General Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, who was in charge at Saint-Omer (77 letters) reported that it was impossible to embark the entire force in twenty-four hours, Napoleon expostulated, 'Impossible, sir! I am not acquainted with the word; it is not in the French language, erase it from your dictionary.

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It might be unpalatable in our more egalitarian era to admit it, but Churchill became prime minister by a process that was far from democratic.

El único caso en el que creo ver el dedo de Dios en la historia contemporánea es el de la llegada de Churchill al más alto cargo de la nación en ese preciso momento de 1940».

Politicians rise by toils and struggles. They expect to fall; they hope to rise again.

It was an integral part of Churchill's leadership code never to scapegoat subordinates.

Hitler had done quite enough in his career to prove how utterly untrustworthy he was long before the Nazi–Soviet Pact was signed in August 1939, yet as Alexander Solzhenitsyn pointed out: 'Not to trust anybody was very typical of Josef Stalin. All the years of his life did he trust one man only, and that was Adolf Hitler.

What is now clear', wrote Leslie Rowan a quarter of a century later, 'is that Greece would not have been a free country had it not been for Churchill's courage and grasp of the essential.

Vaunting ambition can be a terrible thing, but if allied to great ability – a protean energy, grand purpose, the gift of oratory, near-perfect recall, superb timing, inspiring leadership – it can bring about extraordinary outcomes.

The reading of history very soon made me feel that I was capable of achieving as much as the men who are placed in the highest ranks of our annals.

la ausencia de la fe cristiana había determinado que el credo churchilliano girase en torno al imperio británico.

Although it is fashionable to decry President Trump's present-day use of Twitter to communicate directly with the electorate, it is a device that would probably have been used by most leaders if they had been able.

acting first and leaving the consequences to take care of themselves.

Trust the people' occasionally had to be tempered by common sense.

Como Primer Cónsul, Napoleón decretó que todos los funcionarios públicos fuesen asalariados al servicio del estado, se preocupó de que estuviesen bien formados, y abolió la promoción basada en la corrupción y el nepotismo, reemplazándola con premios al talento y al mérito.

could not accept a position of general responsibility for war policy without an effective share in its guidance and control