Quotes about Leadership Dynamics

On the bright side, Percy said, both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to shut up.

The good thing is Jason and I both outrank you so we can both tell you to shut up.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over. You've seen it a thousand times. We create a leader by locating one in the crowd who is standing up. This may well be because there are no chairs or because his knees are fused by arthritis. It doesn't matter. We designate this victim as a 'stand-up guy' by the simple expedient of sitting down around him." ARTURISM:

We shall have no leaders left before long!" the pastor cried bitterly. "We are not abandoned," the doctor told him quietly. "Neither is one man indispensable, however much we may mourn him personally. Each of us does as much as he can and when he disappears someone else finds the courage to take his place.

That's the problem dealing with nonwerewolves, I said. They lack that critical 'you are Alpha, you are right' gene.

Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

the consensus was that he preferred to have Churchill inside the tent spitting out.

dislikes the work of governing, but I'm fascinated by it." Aldred put in: "Women sometimes do it well. King Alfred of England had a daughter called Ethelfled

Power people are generally threatened by authority people.

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.

You can't keep changing the rules based upon who holds political power.

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.

The person in power takes up the most space.

One is always a good master when one isn't the master

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

Olympus is still a patriarchy. Zeus heads his royal household as jealously as Jehovah rules his harem of dull, harp-playing angels. Both are templates for order on earth, don't you think?

After 30 years in Brussels, I can tell you: The relationship between the Commission and the Parliament has probably never been as good as it is now.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

Military commanders choose to overlook the Kenyan proverb that proclaims the power of the flea--"A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea." Most generals would rather be lions than fleas.

In reality, a higher level of war always trumps a lower.

The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it.