Quotes about Leadership Dynamics

We are inadvertently in love with the Influence of Power and we need to be in love with the Power of Influence.

When the leader of the pack springs and fails to kill, the rest of the pack tear him to pieces.

The people follow him. Because they have no choice. They follow, but do they love him? Some do, Appah Rao answered. But what does it matter? Why should a ruler want his people's love? Their obedience, yes, but love? Love is for children, McCandless, and for gods and for women.

There are certainly more Republicans who like President Trump than like 'Republicans in Congress,' and certainly many Republicans who already feel like their own Congress is a brake pedal of its own.

I don't enjoy politics. I like to get things done, and I like Republicans and Democrats, and that doesn't always work well.

Trump's relentless public humiliation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions was clearly intended to get him to resign.

It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of the two leaders: Obama on this score has so far been disappointing; the early signs are that Xi is a highly confident leader who thinks big.

What's the difference between a Spartan king and a mid-ranker? One man will lob this query to his mate as they prepare to bed down in the open in a cold driving rain. His friend considers mock-theatrically for a moment. .'The king sleeps in that shithole over there' he replies. 'We sleep in this shithole over here.

The Republican Party was—and still is—afraid of Donald Trump.

The party will only change when its desire to revel in its worst instincts is challenged by its fear of losing power.

wanted them to claim their own actions by saying "I" instead of "we," but here there was no "I." Even "we" did not exist without the permission of their Great Leader.

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.

The Gandhis are not ordinary Indians.

You know how it is: when you politicize things, it is not the best ingredient to get things done.

Don't put too many chefs to work. Sometimes they get too involved in the ingredients and are of no help.

In business terms, if you take over a company and oust its CEO or fire a divisional chief, you run the place. But in institutional terms, as it happens, it doesn't at all work that way.

I actually don't like saying 'lead character,' which is an interesting thing. If you say there's a lead, then there has to be someone to follow.

If I hire a coach, he's the coach and will run what he knows and is comfortable with. Will it be part of the process? Absolutely. But I am not going to interfere that way as the president.

Except two or three parties, most parties are dependent on one family. I believe that only parties where internal democracy is alive can achieve the ideals of democracy.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

Inside, a mother superior, ethereal, delicate, who took me under her wing. She caressed me with her slender, soft hands, she sat next to me as if I were a friend. One day she disappeared. In her place arrived a buxom Swiss from Canton Uri. It's common knowledge that a new leader will hate the predecessors' favourites. A boarding school is like a harem.

If people are following, you're leading. Otherwise you aren't." – Bob Lewis

without Churchill, Hitler would almost certainly have won.