Quotes About Leadership

God is always with the strongest battalions.

In the past the man has been first. In the future the System must be first.

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

There was no difference between the men and the women of the Black Panther Party. We were all working to serve the community.

Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.

Ein Hohlkopf an der Spitze einer Großmacht, Nationalrat, und schon werden wir weggeschwemmt, ein Gastmann, und schon sind unsere Ketten durchbrochen, die Vorposten umgangen.

Je öfter sich ein Politiker widerspricht, desto größer ist er.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Most execs, particularly first-time CEOs who get good at one thing, can only dance what they know how to dance.

As part of his ongoing quest for a better allocation of his own time, he decreed that he would no longer have one-on-one meetings with his subordinates. These meetings tended to be filled with trivial updates and political distractions, rather than problem solving and brainstorming. Even today, Bezos rarely meets alone with an individual colleague.

Roseman also put it: "Autonomous working units are good. Things to manage working units are bad.

When Kessel asked Bezos what his deadline was on developing the company's first piece of hardware, an electronic reading device, Bezos told him, "You are basically already late.

Do I need to go down and get the certificate that says I'm CEO of the company to get you to stop challenging me on this?

Up until that point, I had seen Jeff only at one speed, the go-go speed of grow at all costs. I had not seen him drive toward profitability and efficiency," says Scott Cook, the Intuit founder and an Amazon board member during that time. "Most execs, particularly first-time CEOs who get good at one thing, can only dance what they know how to dance. "Frankly, I didn't think he could do it.

the chairman of Random House, Alberto Vitale, told a Wall Street Journal reporter about the new online bookselling sensation from the Pacific Northwest.

Bezos wanted to personally approve each equation and track the results over time. It would be his way of guiding a team's evolution.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen." —JOHN F. KENNEDY

The ability to make good decisions regarding people represents one of the last reliable sources of competitive advantage, since very few organizations are very good at it. —Peter Drucker

The loudest person is not the best leader.