Quotes About Authority

I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interested in controlling you.

Power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.

If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be.

You can judge the success of a man by his bodyguards!

A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

My definition of success is control.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

Our power is in our ability to decide.

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

Control success before it controls you.

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

Noone's a leader if there are no followers.

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.