Quotes About Leadership

The value of experienced teams cannot be overstated, yet it is routinely disregarded.

Asking "Why?" can work only where people feel free to speak their minds and the decision makers really listen. "Many employees who worked on the Fire Phone had serious doubts about it," concluded the journalist and author Brad Stone, who has written definitive histories of Amazon, "but no one, it seemed, had been brave or clever enough to take a stand and win an argument with their obstinate leader.

A good plan, as I said, is one that maximizes experience or experimentation; a great plan is one that does both. And the best plan? That's one that maximizes experience and experimentation—and is drafted and delivered by a project leader and team with phronesis.

GET YOUR TEAM RIGHT This is the only heuristic cited by every project leader I've ever met.

But who should pick the team? Ideally, that's the job of a masterbuilder. In fact, it's the masterbuilder's main job. This is why the role of masterbuilder is not as solitary as it sounds; projects are delivered by teams. So to amend my advice above: When possible, hire a masterbuilder. And the masterbuilder's team.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

Man or woman......It doesn't matter! One of strength......And nobility......Is always a prince.

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

He (Tomaz Humar) doesn't conform to existing standards; he creates them.

We should celebrate that many more women are reconfiguring feminism and that grassroots activism is spreading like wildfire and millions of women are waking up to the possibility of taking ownership of our world as fully-entitled human beings how can we argue with that?

People can say that I became famous because of 911. I became America's top cop, cultivated a political profile, wrote books, became a security consultant. But I'd give anything for that day not to have happened. I wish it hadn't. But it did. And I happen to be there at the time. I was there, and I did the best I could do under the circumstances. It's all any of us did.

The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

Never follow the crowd.

A leader leads," Ragnar said, "and you can't ask men to risk death if you're not willing to risk it yourself.

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

Heroes are made, I see, when retreat is cut off.

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

The persistence of public officials varies inversely with the importance of the matter on which they are persisting.

Without heroes we're all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.

it's so crazy that the disgusting perma-tanned billionaire has set a new intellectual and moral low by being president of America and basically it all means that the older generation has RUINED EVERYTHING and her generation is doooooomed

también era leal, claro, pero como un capitán ante el general. Troy, como un soldado.