Quotes about Leadership Dynamics

No fool stays in power for years on end when there are so many generals, sons, and wives waiting in the wings to launch a coup.

Too many kings can ruin an army

Is there any chance you'd overthrow the tyrannical Beast Lord and his psychotic consort? Yeah, I want a vacation. -Kate & Curran to Jim

There was imbalance with my first husband just by the given of our 29-year age difference and the difficulty of me being this unformed, enthusiastic young woman and he already completely in place being the leader of the country.

Journalists always want publishers or editors to leave. They're creative troublemakers - that's why you hire them.

The calculus is simple: Trump wants more freedom; Lockdown Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., want less.

You don't change Donald Trump. You don't 'manage' him.

By heralding President Xi Jinping's accession to permanent leadership, soliciting Vladimir Putin's reentry into the Group of Seven, and declaring that Kim Jong Un is 'beloved by his people,' Trump legitimizes the very behavior that U.S. presidents opposed for decades.

Consider the record: In Trump's world, a woman is not in front of a man; her place is behind, under, or on his arm.

What Trump is not smart enough to even grasp is that the kind of popularity that Putin has can only be achieved in the context of retro-totalitarianism.

I find it very easy and good to cooperate with President Donald Trump. Because he's very down to earth, very concrete. He tells me what he wants; he asks me what he can get from us.

Trump is going to be the change agent. Hillary Clinton is going to be the status quo. Bernie Sanders is not going to be in the mix.

Trump was doing very well on a model that made sense, but now, as the campaign has gotten to the end stages, a more traditional campaign has to take place.

Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.

A lot of people in the crowd want to be told what to do; if you just put your hands up, they do it.

Donald Trump said he doesn't care about Paul Ryan's support, he doesn't want Paul Ryan's support, that he might be better off without Paul Ryan's support.

Everybody wants to manage me; management is a touchy situation.

Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.

A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.

You say you do not see a king in me, and you may be right, but all I see in you is a bullying child.

I've talked to a lot of directors who direct solo like most directors. And they're always like, 'Oh, man I wish I had somebody I could direct with because it's a lot of work.'

The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the results that I got from working as a team where everyone had equal say... ended up with compromised, watered-down results.