Quotes About Leadership

Instead of focusing on profits, trading managers focused on revenues.

Clark couldn't stand the idea of anyone's working for him without having the chance to accumulate a bit of wealth.

The best computer science students at Stanford were some of the best computer science students anywhere. Under Clark they gathered together into a new, potent force. 'The difference was phenomenal, for me. I don't know how many people around me noticed. But my God I noticed. The first manifestation was when all of these people started coming up and wanting to be part of my project.' That

a bungled transition becomes a bungled presidency.

He shouted into the phone, "That is fuckin' awesome. I mean fuckin' awesome. I fuckin' mean fucking awesome. You are one Big Swinging Dick, and don't ever let anybody tell you different." It brought tears to my eyes to hear it, to be called a Big Swinging Dick by the man who, years ago, had given birth to the distinction and in my mind had the greatest right to confer it upon me.

One of these people—a Canadian, of all things—stands at the picture's center, organizing the many smaller pictures into a coherent whole.

The United States took this on as a national priority before anyone in the world

Clark knew that the time would come to put a smiley corporate face on his ferocious ambition.

There was something deeply dysfunctional about how the government worked that I never fully grasped," Joe would later say. "There's no one driving the bus.

He attracted followers as a magnet attracts filings. In other words, he was exactly the right man to take an inherently implausible idea and lead others to believe in it.

A system was groping toward a solution, but the solution required someone in it to be brave, and the system didn't reward bravery. It was stuck in an infinite loop of first realizing that it was in need of courage and then remembering that courage didn't pay. Charity didn't think of it this way, but it was striking how often the system returned to her and very nearly sought her leadership, without ever formally acknowledging its need.

There are two ways to be a health officer," he said. "One is to pretend it's not happening.

Long rose and explained how he intended to restore the company to the heart of the Magic Diamond.

It was clear what had happened," he later said. "This company started out with great ambitions, and then the ambition got smaller and smaller. I just took it back to Jim's original vision.

My book asked: What happens when the people in charge of managing these risks, along with the experts who understand them, have no interest in them?

If I'm a Trump person I'm going to assume the people in charge of the nuclear weapons are sufficiently alive to the risks around them that they don't need Rick Perry's help. After all, the only thing Trump had to say publicly about Rick Perry during the campaign was that he "should be forced to take an IQ test" and that "he put glasses on so people think he's smart.

quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.

says. "There's only one Moses, but I'm not sure there's a Moses here." But Howard Mudd, who coached the Chargers' offensive line at the time, an

Therefore the skillful commander takes up a position in which he cannot be defeated and misses no opportunity to master his enemy.

John Patterson, president of National Cash Register, was a fan of Napoleon. Patterson rode horseback with his executives every day at 5 a.m. He demanded that they maintain a little red book to record daily activities, thoughts, ideas, and so on. He ruthlessly fired many an employee who failed to maintain a notebook.

A leader's first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.

There is less danger, gentlemen, in living according to a set of high moral principles than most politicians believe.

We are wary of you, Elric. Even if we allowed you to lead us again you would take your own doomed path and us with you. There is no future here for myself and my men.

and then quite suddenly I found that I had no rider, that I had no weight on my back, and that I was alone out in front of the squadron.