Quotes About Leadership

There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government.

It is supposed that power corrupts," the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. "Yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt.

Do you know what they call themselves, all these people?" Alyss shook her head. How could she know? "Alyssians." Bibwit spelled it out. Her heart gave a little jump. Alyssians? No, they ask too much of me. "I don't think I'm ready for all of this," she said.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.

The lack of ability of those in charge to get a grip on a situation, and to take immediate, decisive action rather than simply debate everything endlessly, is one of the major problems in the State education system.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

The qualities which caused him to be acclaimed the leader, he possessed when he was teaching school, and splitting rails, and reading law in a judge's musty office. From the beginning he was a man among men who always upheld the right, advocated justice for the oppressed, and a square deal for all.

Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.

men of genius stand apart and are laws unto themselves; showed him, too, that all qualities—singularity of appearance, wit, rudeness even, count doubly in a democracy.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.

Instead of looking at leadership as decision making—as a rational process of sifting through data, analyzing trends, and making decisions based on predicting futures—a design framework emphasizes pragmatic experimentation.

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

Como sempre, a guerra proporciona grandes oportunidades aos homens ambiciosos que teriam permanecido na obscuridade em tempos de paz.

O outro evidente sinal da grandeza de Marco Aurélio era o facto de ele próprio ser a refutação em pessoa do famoso ditado de Lord Acton: "o poder tende a corromper e o poder absoluto corrompe absolutamente". Marco Aurélio detinha um poder absoluto, mas nunca o usou para fins egoístas, malévolos, despóticos ou corruptos.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

A society remains functional as long as too many people aren't corrupt in too many places for too long.

Here, in the foyer of the League of Nations, Edith Campbell Berry stands.