Quotes About Insight

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

The most serious failure of leadership is the failure to foresee

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities.

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.

Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.

People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.

Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.