Quotes About Leadership

The old world was destroyed because of its own greed and secretiveness. Those least evolved rose to the top, as happens here. Your leaders, as you call them, are all people with damaged senses of self-worth. The damaged goods run the civilization. That's why it cannot last." "Abraham Lincoln was damaged goods?" "The need to lead is a symptom.

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

I'd better get back to work. I have empires to topple, people to fire, lives to ruin...

After the probe does its thing, the Jarada make contact: they want to talk to the Captain, and are offended that they can't immediately speak to the person in charge, which would explain why the Jarada destroyed every planet in the Dell Technical Support system.

Listen, Q, don't know who you've been talking to, but in Starfleet, we save the universe and fuck the green alien chick twice before breakfast, every day. We've got this one, dude.

They all hop into the turbolift, and Picard says, "Hey, I think it's great that you guys know each other, because it's important for my key officers to be familiar with each other's abilities." Troi says, "We are, sir," and Riker and Picard subtly high-five each other as the doors close.

Something always dies when the lion feeds – and yet there is meat for those that follow him.

Should five slaves dictate to a king? If five baboons bark, must the black-maned lion tremble?

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

The word fascism is not a word of abuse any more than the word capitalism is. It is a concept denoting a very definite kind of mass leadership and mass influence: authoritarian, one-party system, hence totalitarian, a system in which power takes priority over objective interests, and facts are distorted for political purposes. Hence, there are "fascist Jews," just as there are "fascist Democrats.

Bir ?eyi ne denli az anlarsan, o denli çok sayg? gösteriyor, onun kar??s?nda boyun e?iyorsun. Hitler'i Nietzsche'den, Napolyon'u da Pestalozzi'den daha iyi tan?yorsun. Sana göre bir kral, Sigmund Freud'dan daha önemlidir.

Gelehrte dirigieren ist nicht viel besser als eine Komödiantengruppe unter sich zu haben.

In some respects, Nero was ahead of his time. He boiled his drinking water to remove the impurities and cooled it with unsanitary ice to put them back in. He renamed the month of April after himself, calling it Neroneus, but the idea never caught on because April is not Neroneus and there is no use pretending that it is. During his reign of fourteen years, the outlying provinces are said to have prospered. They were farther away.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

you can't fool all the people all the time," but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

Organizations that take the word of overconfident experts can expect costly consequences.

A correlation of .30 implies that you would find the stronger CEO leading the stronger firm in about 60% of the pairs—an improvement of a mere 10 percentage points over random guessing, hardly grist for the hero worship of CEOs we so often witness.

We find that firms with award-winning CEOs subsequently underperform, in terms both of stock and of operating performance. At the same time, CEO compensation increases, CEOs spend more time on activities outside the company such as writing books and sitting on outside boards, and they are more likely to engage in earnings management.

President Truman famously asked for a "one-armed economist" who would take a clear stand; he was sick and tired of economists who kept saying, "On the other hand Ã¢â'¬Â¦

People voted for someone who looked strong and decisive without any other reason to believe that he was.

CEOs do influence performance, but the effects are much smaller than a reading of the business press suggests.

Leaders who have been lucky are never punished for having taken too much risk. Instead, they are believed to have had the flair and foresight to anticipate success, and the sensible people who doubted them are seen in hindsight as mediocre, timid, and weak.

A few lucky gambles can crown a reckless leader with a halo of prescience and boldness.