Quotes About Leadership

As so many people seem to have done, I kind of fell in love with Willy Brandt.

I do feel pressured sometimes because I feel responsible for so many people.

It's very difficult, I would imagine, to distinguish father and daughter. And maybe some of it comes as I'm doing my thing and my father being a very strong political African figure for so many years. Whatever he does is almost like some kind of cloud on top.

I parted ways with the Congress, a party that I served for so many years, because its leadership constantly humiliated me by ignoring my talent both as a leader and an administrator.

That's why John Cena was No. 1 for so many years. Because every time John got in the ring with somebody, he made them better than they were.

As a kid, I loved leading 'dance camp' in my garage for the neighborhood kids. I would choreograph really intricate routines for us to perform. It was so much fun!

It's just so much fun when you're working with folks who are not just at the top of their game but reinventing the game. It's like a whole new machine.

I don't really like to work with a large team and assistants, because then I lose so much time explaining things, which I don't like.

Be the guy people want to do things for.

The U.S. Navy—our primary military force in the 21st century—currently has the smallest number of ships we have had since the end of World War I! In 1918, our navy was comprised of 774 ships, it's down to fewer than 300 today.1 Bill Clinton decimated our military forces during the 1990s, and under Barack Obama the problem is getting worse.

Lee stopped, looked north. I twas working almost like a plan. It was possible to see Intention in it...he gave no further directions...it had never really been in his hands at all. And yet his was the responsibility.

thought, Lee wants a frontal assault. I guess he'll have one. He turned to the messenger.

Everybody knows all the movements. General So and So should have done such and such. God knows we all try. We none of us lose battles on purpose. But now on this field what can we do that's undone?

General, you may attack'...He gave no further directions...With that word it was out of his hands. It had never really been in his hands at all. And yet his was the responsibility.

I believe safety is the first thing you need to guarantee as mayor," she said.47

Churchill quote – "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results

One of the main recruitment centers and organizing hubs for ISIS is prisons. Whether by accident or design, jailhouses in the Middle East have served for years as virtual terror academies, where known extremists can congregate, plot, organize, and hone their leadership skills "inside the wire," and most ominously recruit a new generation of fighters. ISIS is a terrorist organization

Upon the highest throne in the world, we are seated, still, upon our arses.

Those who shake the State are easily the first to be engulfed in its destruction. The fruits of dissension are not gathered by the one who began it: he stirs and troubles the waters for other men to fish in.

There is hardly less torment in running a family than in running a country.

If it lay in my power to make myself feared, I had rather make myself beloved.

The majority of our polities, as Aristotle says, are like the Cyclops, abandoning the guidance of the women and children to each individual man according to his mad and injudicious ideas: hardly any, except the polities of Sparta and of Crete, have entrusted the education of children to their laws.

This emperor was arbiter of the whole world at nineteen, and yet would have a man to be thirty before he could be fit to determine a dispute about a gutter.

We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.