Quotes About Leadership

The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose ... to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.

Steve Jobs: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. "There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him," Cook said. "That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that.

It is no longer enough to be the best. Somehow, as well, it matters to be wise. To know on whose behalf he wields the sword.

Ivan's going to die...that's why we follow him...We always follow the doomed ones. The ones who show us the way. The world will follow, no matter what. We just want them to accept that. Go with a little dignity, a little forethought.

if a person of authority talks only to those who agree with him he soon finds himself out of authority. Luke

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurancesand the economy of effort it brings.

Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President.

Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Industry is a far better horse to ride a genius.

Theodore Roosevelt was a conservative who adopted progressive policies.

The final test of a leader is that he or she leaves behind in others the conviction and the will to carry on.

The established leaders of any organization have great natural advantages. They are believed to have better sources of information. The books and papers are in their offices. They took part in the important conferences. They met the important people. They have responsibility. It is, therefore, easier for them to secure attention and to speak in a convincing tone. But also they have a very great deal of control over the access to the facts. Every official is in some degree a censor.

Try and get off with Major Butt

and PWD was soon on the air again. Beyond the perimeter, Snowy Rhoades took charge of mopping up the scattered Japanese. Learning that a small party was hiding up a river near the southeast coast, he loaded a barge with eighteen U.S. infantry and ten armed natives and went after them. They

To Mayo, this meant "passing down the chain of command the handling of all details to the lowest link in the chain which could properly handle them," while keeping in hand matters of policy and strategic importance.

Nimitz kept avoiding the hands that attempted to steer him off the wing and into a crash boat. Finally, an eighteen-year-old seaman second class lost patience with the white-haired gentleman, and knowing neither his identity nor his rank, he shouted out, "Commander, if you would only get the hell out of the way, maybe we could get something done around here." Nimitz merely nodded and finally clambered into the waiting boat.