Quotes About Authority

Most members of the political elites of north-east Africa have come to resemble gangsters rather than civic political leaders.

You cannot lead by following.

Leaders are usually unaware, or at least underestimate, the motivating power of their presence. Nobody sees themselves as others see them.

I placed discipline above all else and it might have cost us several titles. If I had to repeat things, I'd do precisely the same, because once you bid farewell to discipline you say goodbye to success and set the stage for anarchy.

Inexperienced, or insecure, leaders are often tempted to make any infraction a capital offence.

La autoridad y el control se basan en ganarse la confianza de las personas a las que se va a dirigir.

Un líder no es uno de los chicos.

As a leader, you don't need to be loved, though it is useful, on occasion, to be feared. But, most of all, you need to be respected.

A leader who arrives in a new setting, or inherits a big role, needs to curb the impulse to display his manhood.

a display of temper is more effective if used sparingly. I just don't believe that you can get the most out of people if they are perpetually afraid of you.

Effective delegation depends on the ability of others to make decisions. Some people can make decisions, others cannot. It

I was the puppet master, not the control freak.

Effective delegation depends on the ability of others to make decisions. Some people can make decisions, others cannot. It just doesn't work if you are congenitally hesitant and allow things to linger in a state of suspension.

After anyone retires from a position of responsibility and remains associated with the same organisation, it is unfair to your successor to try and retain the authority you once possessed. You have to let go and let the new man and the new regime do what they think is best.

por muy valioso que fuera, nadie está por encima de la ley.

El juez supremo del rendimiento es el Padre Tiempo.

The one thing I could never allow was loss of control, because control was my only saviour.

Even in my time, we knew that men were not in charge. Oh, they might bluster as if they were. But when it came down to it, we women bore much of the influence. Often, my father would make some grand pronouncement in the evening. And the next morning, he had changed his mind. After a while, I realized that it was my mother who had changed it, quietly, in the night.

You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents. But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly. Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever, whether that means not touching a spindle or . . . or . . .

Control is part of faking it

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

Government is a system of morality developed by philosophers and refined by mercenaries.

will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.[130] (George Orwell, 1984)

In my kingdom, on the other hand, a man becomes a great one, and a ruler, by being first the servant of those over whom he is to bear rule. In other states, they rule whose privilege it is to be ministered unto; in the divine commonwealth, they rule who account it a privilege to minister.