Quotes About Leadership

Kirk] paced back toward his command chair, all eyes on him. "He must have a weakness." "Certainly," Chekov said. "Is he not basically humanoid? He could be poisoned, phasered, stabbed-" Kirk sneered. " Without killing him, Ensign." With a shrug, Chekov turned quietly back to his console, pulling his hands from his lap and placing them on the controls.

Carl von Clausewitz warned that "it is to no purpose, it is even against one's better interest, to turn away from the consideration of the affair because the horror of its elements excites repugnance.

General James Gavin, the commander of the 82d Airborne Division in World War II, carried an M1 Garand rifle, then the standard American-infantry weapon of World War II. He advised young infantry officers not to carry any equipment that would make them stand out in the eyes of the enemy.

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring. —Sir Philip Sidney

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. —Margaret Mead, anthropologist

The military and the politicians have been the same people for all but the most recent part of human history, and we know that the victor writes the history books.

a bold act may prove to be a blunder. Nonetheless, it is a laudable error, not to be regarded on the same footing as others. Happy is the army where ill-timed boldness occurs frequently; it is a luxuriant weed, but indicates richness in the soil.

Create an environment in which your people want to train and be inoculated. Do not kill your warriors. Do not send losers off the training site. Do not talk trash about your students. Punish in private, praise in public.

Napoleon said, "The moment of greatest vulnerability is the instant immediately after victory.

I am interested in politics.

No one will ever declare you as the expert, the authority, or number one in your market… this is something you need to choose to do for yourself.

Management does not just involve praise--anyone can do that, although many do not. Management also involves looking someone in the eyes and delivering the hard message that the employee has reached too high.

Dear Admiral Rickover, If you want to stop killing people, read this. Very respectfully, Dave Oliver Captain, US Navy

Henry Ford said, "Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.

If you as a leader allow people to halfway do their jobs and don't demand excellence as a prerequisite to keeping their job, you will create a culture of mediocrity.

Good to Great by my friend Jim Collins.

Passion is so key in leading and creating excellence that I will hire passion over education and talent every time.

Passion is so key in leading and creating excellence that I will hire passion over education or talent every time. I prefer to have both, but given a choice I will take passion. La Rochefoucauld once said, "The most untutored person with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without.

When leadership sets the goals by themselves they are not goals, they are quotas. And no one likes quotas.

Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.

We don't keep jerks; life is too short to work with them and really way too short to pay them and work with them too. Seems simple, but it requires that you fight to build an incredible team and culture from the moment you post a position until you celebrate their retirement. Every day every behavior, attitude, and execution has to be led well by a courageous, loving leader.

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. (from George S. Patton)

desafío estratégico clave es transformar una empresa tan rápido o más rápido que los cambios del entorno. Esta capacidad de tomar las decisiones necesarias de forma rápida, creativa e inteligente se denomina «agilidad estratégica». Según

The first thing to remember is that it's not about you, it's about them. If an employee can't do the job, then they have to go. The last thing you want is employees who are holding your business back or who are demoralizing their coworkers. Your credibility depends on getting rid of such people as soon as possible.