Quotes About Leadership

Too many kings can ruin an army

I have this insane optimistic streak that the American people prevail over the stupidity that the leadership exhibits time and time again, and I think that's the truth.

The truth of the matter is: you can create a great legacy, and inspire others, by giving it to philanthropic organizations.

In some organizations, it is easy to say mistakes are okay when in truth it is a zero-defect organization. You will be remembered more for your mistakes than your successes in those organizations.

... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

The number one job of a leader is to protect the truth.

Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

When I say that I'm a businessperson and a dressmaker, it's the truth. I run a business, and I make dresses, I make blouses.

Presentationally, Bill Clinton is a US President to die for. The truth is, far too many have.

I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

Each American generation passes the torch of truth, liberty and justice in unbroken chain all the way down to the present. That torch is now in our hands, and we will use it to light up the world.

In truth, a leader should either apologize, mean it and do something about it - or not apologize at all.

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

Just because everybody else is engaged in a group hug with Barack Obama doesn't mean that somebody doesn't have to tell the truth.

While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

The President Donald Trump has great difficulty with the truth on many issues.