Quotes about Leadership Dynamics

From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.

Action is king, but wisdom is queen.

A wise servant is better than a foolish ruler.

Men fight wars. Women win them.

Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming blanket acquiescence, approval, and support.

You can learn a lot about Pat Buchanan by talking to his campaign staff, particularly the ones who have quit or been fired.

For the most part, from the player standpoint, the coaches do the coaching and you try to come in and execute the game plan or the scheme they put in front of you.

The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

I think a woman can have all of the ideas and mental pictures. She can be a real planner and a motivator. But in the end, I think a woman does best when she responds to a man.

In a matriarchy men should be encouraged to take it easy, for most women prefer live husbands to blocks of shares and seats on the board.

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.

One thing he'd learned in ten years on the New York Stage was this: don't make friends with the man who plays Hamlet; make friends with the man who pays Hamlet.

The interesting thing about the TLC network is that they were interested in following me, not leading me.

Dr. Kaunda, although he was running a one-party state, was very close to the West, and that is why he achieved as much as he did. But we drifted away from the West to look for new friends.