Quotes About Leadership

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

You have given me a great responsibility to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

Jimmy Hoffa said, "I know how Jesus must have felt. The fucking pharaohs rose to power on his coattails like the fucking Kennedy brothers are rising on mine." Heshie Ryskind said, "Get your history straight. It was Julius Caesar that did Jesus in.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

When the slave auctioneer asked him what he was skilled at, Diogenes said "At governing people," and, pointing to a well-dressed buyer, he said "Sell me to that man, for he wants a master.

By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.

I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be a king, alive and fifty all at the same time.

I've plotted and schemed all my life. There is no other way to be a King, fifty and alive all at once.

I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place where I will always strive to be and that is on people's side.

Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader.

If not me, who?" "Who? You're Condor, not an owl.

When in doubt, mumble when in trouble, delegate when in charge, ponder.

Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

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Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active not passive observers.

Monarchs have a great weakness, however, for their own sons, no matter how feckless and inept. A statistical study should be done across cultures assessing the relative frequency of the bizarre outcomes to which monarchical succession is prone: failure to provide an heir or successor, provision of an heir completely inept, or division of rule among several incompatible ones. Orderly succession followed by a successful reign is the exception.

Failing to act is action, and though there are a lot of people talking, they are not taking action.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.

Level 5 leaders, Collins argues, 'channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. Their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves.' Pass the ball.