Quotes About Leadership

Young Stalin Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner

An effective tsar could be harsh provided he was consistently harsh. Rulers are often killed not for brutality but for inconsistency.

Stalin impressed Trotsky, whose description reveals why he lost their struggle for power. 'Stalin was very valuable behind the scenes,' he wrote. 'He did have the knack of convincing the average run

[Martin Luther King, Jr.] gave the 'I have a dream' speech, not the 'I have a plan' speech.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.

Service is not slavery.

Test your leadership and take difficult decisions.

seagull meetings' – according to one executive, because Ryan 'swoops in, shits on everyone from a height and swoops away again'.

For the world to be a better place for all. Country leaders need to focus on building a platform for the poor to escape poverty.

He who speaks on behalf of people he leads, is a great leader.

The only two things that you need not doubt, is your heart and mind. You are guided by your heart and lead by your mind.

We are guided by the strongest and judged by the weakest.

We are living in the era where kings and queens are few.

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought and perception of an individual.

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

I think the Duke of Buckingham is the cause of all our miseries, and till the King be informed thereof, we shall never go out with honor, or sit with honor here. That man is the grievance of grievances. Let us set down the causes of all our disasters and they will all reflect upon him.

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring

I have always believed that the way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers, and that people flourish when they are praised." Sir

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

If I cannot sing a work, I cannot conduct it.