Quotes About Leadership

A sign points to something beyond itself. For example, a road sign directs you where to go. If you are among the elect of God, you are a sign. People in your spheres of influence should be able to look at you and find their way to Jesus.

Keep in mind that democracy merely gives power to the people; it does not ensure that power will be used wisely or humanely.

IN WHAT CAME TO BE KNOWN as his farewell address, Muhammad is said to have told his followers: "I was ordered to fight all men until they say 'There is no god but Allah.'"1 This is entirely consistent with the Qur'an (9:5) : "[S]lay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them [captive], and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush." In this spirit, Muhammad's heirs set out to conquer the world.

does not ensure that power will be used wisely or humanely.

As for the fall of the Spanish Empire, ironically, perhaps no monarchs in history were more conscientious, honest, or hardworking than Charles V and his son Philip II. Between them they carefully built the Spanish Empire and ruled it for more than eighty years. Nearly every day they rose early and worked diligently at administering this sprawling entity. Had they been wastrels or playboys, they might have done much less damage to the economies in their charge.

Be hard on the problem, soft on the people.

A compact organization lets all of us spend our time managing the business rather than managing each other.

Hewlett-Packard is somewhat riskier than GE; Amazon.com, riskier still.

Warburg hesitated before daring to reply. "Your bank is so big and so powerful, Mr. Stillman, that when the next panic comes, you will wish your responsibilities were smaller.

The important person in a free economy is not the manager but the entrepreneur – the one who takes risks and meets the cost of them.

John O'Sullivan has forcefully argued that the simultaneous presence in the highest offices of Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II was the cause of the Soviet collapse.

Maybe a knowledge of literature and history was of no immediate benefit to a soldier in the ranks during the second world war; without it, however, it would have been impossible for Churchill to exert the kind of leadership that distinguished him, and which aroused even in the most uneducated the sense that far more was at stake than he could easily define.

John O'Sullivan has forcefully argued that the simultaneous presence in the highest offices of Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II was the cause of the Soviet collapse.3 And my own experience confirms this.

Democracies have a natural tendency to turn against their saviours. It happened to Winston Churchill. It happened to Charles de Gaulle and it happened to Margaret Thatcher. It was not the faults of those great leaders that caused their downfall, but their virtues

Government is not what so many conservatives believe it to be, and what people on the left always believe it to be when it is in other hands than their own – namely a system of power and domination.

Personal feelings don't make for good politics, legal decisions, or business deals.

First, a man may in some ways be superior to his fellows and still serve them, if together they serve a common cause which is greater than any one man. I believe that I serve such a cause, or I would not be doing it.

Now you know what an absolute monarchy is she explained to Bill. You can see how power corrupts. I was corrupt before I had power, Random said, and rich is better.

This is because one can never be sure whether wisdom produces or merely locates, and the Prince is wise.

You imported a master strategist, you'd better listen to what he has to say.

I think he knows exactly what he is doing, and whether we like it or not, I think he is the only one who can deal with the present situation.

Kur dievas, tas prakeiktas kvailys? Negi jis neskiria, kas teisinga, o kas ne? Nesupranta papras?iausio balanso? Seniai b?t? išmestas iš darbo, jei vadovaut? korporacijai, turint omeny, kokiems dalykams leido atsitikti...

What is a hero? The one who has the last word.

In the snows Amundsen grasped that it was usually best to lead from behind. He could see his men and survey the situation, the foundation of command. And the last man has the responsibility of retrieving what falls off the sledges. However careful the stowing, somehow something vital usually drops by the wayside.